This is one of the most fun apps that Google has ever created.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the company has posted the complete contents of its oldest working archive, in this case from 2001.
What’s really fun is to search using terms that have since become commonplace but back then were little-known or completely nonexistent in the forms we now know them.
For example, do a search for “iPod,” and you get a mere 1,300 hits, with the top result being for something called the “Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System.”
Or do a search for “subprime mortgage.” The 2001 index returns 11,100 hits, while the search on the current, up to date google.com returns almost 2.8 million results.
A lot of the original Web pages that the index links to have been taken down, of course, but many of the search results include a link to an archived version of the page so you can generally see what those pages looked like back then.
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