Use archive.org to study an internet history of almost any webpage

screenshot of archive.org homepage

As a domainer you may have wondered how the certain domain name/webpage looked in the past. This is an important thing to check if you are investing some money to a domain name/webpage and want to get data to help you valuate the domain you are about to buy.
Archive.org is a great tool to do just that, it's a wayback machine witch has stored hundred billions webpages over the years. You just simply enter the domain address of your interest and hit the browse history button, after that it takes you a page (if any history found) where you can see the whole history of your domain of interest. Here i used symbols.com, the oldest registered domain name on the internet.

internet history of symbols.com 1998-2014

On the history page you see all the years and months that archive.org has stored so far. The blue dots on the monthly table indigates the exact date of archived pages found, just simply click the dot and see the archived pages. As you see symbols.com has been stored since 1998 and looked quite different on 2004 than nowadays :)

snapshot of symbols.com jan-28-2004

Buy using archive.org you can investigate the history profile of certain domain name or a webpage. Archive.org finds also old texts, software, audio and video. It's a great tool!