Marissa Mayer’s been very busy lately leading Yahoo’s revolution, and I thought it apt to go back in time and explore the changes its homepage has undergone since 1996. Looking at the screenshots below, what might make the New Media geeks among us shed a…

Skype’s 630 million registered users and popularity was reason enough for us to check out its website’s humble beginnings in 2003.  And let’s be honest – Skype should need no introduction. It’s extremely likely that you’re either an active user or have used it at…

It’s Wednesday – so let’s go way back to 1997. Why? Well, if you aren’t already familiar, we travel back in time every Wednesday to unearth archived websites of old – and compare them to their existing versions (while looking out for remarkable changes, if…

Welcome back to another week of Way Back Wednesday! This week we’re checking out the popular social news site Reddit.com. The site has seen incredible growth since its launch in 2005, evident through its Alexa ranking (122) the number of subreddits, and active communities. What is interesting from the…

It’s Way Back Wednesday – and we’re setting our time machine’s clock to the year 2000 as we venture off to discover the developments of IMDB.com You  might well be the keen movie addict regularly scouring the site for the unheard of title no one will…

YouTube! We all use it – that’s a sure thing. Whether you’re using it to watch K-pop, Taylor Swift, silly cats or movie trailers, well, let’s not get into that. This week we’ve gone back to its roots, just after it hit beta in 2006,…

Welcome back to another edition of Way Back Wednesday! We’ve decided this time round to inject Canadian flavour to our time travels by visiting Kijiji.ca, a Canadian classified ads listing website owned by eBay. The site should prove familiar to many Canadians and is often seen as…

Welcome to another edition of Way Back Wednesday! If you didn’t already know, we travel through time every Wednesday, courtesy of the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine. This week we’ve traveled all the way back to 1996 to have a gander at The Economist and it’s digital…

Now very much ingrained in our digital lifestyle (thanks Google!) Wikipedia has become the central source for knowledge online. In this week’s edition of Way Back Wednesday, we take a quick snapshot at the great strides it’s made since Jimmy Wales launched the platform in 2001. I…

Was Tom your first friend too? He should have been – if you were on MySpace back in the mid 2000s. Let’s inject a bit of nostalgia for those that remember MySpace, shall we? MySpace.com used to to be “the” social network between 2005-2008, and…