So many people might not know that there is a service that is saving web pages since 1996 and is like a history book of websites.

The following pages might load slow, be patient.

You can see the old Facebook:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040212031928/http://www.thefacebook.com/

Facebook started as thefacebook.com because facebook.com was taken and you can see here what was on facebook.com:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000823042335/http://www.facebook.com/

They bought facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000!!!

Here you can see how simple Yahoo looked like back in 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

Microsoft:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/
(Pretty good for 1996 though)

Or baby Google:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/

Google, same year, 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

Here is Digg:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041211042536/http://digg.com/

And twitter:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061006030354/http://twitter.com/

You can also see here that some guy owned code-head.com but he gave up on it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010719161538/http://www.code-head.com/

As you probably know by now the site is archive.org.

Enjoy