Want to see the old look of any website? Here's the easy way | 14 Weird Facts From Internet History You Might Not Know

Want to see the old look of any website? Here's the easy way

There are millions of websites live on the internet. Among them there are hundreds of websites that we know. Such websites are modified according to the demand of time. The site may not always be the same as it was in the early days.

For example, Facebook or Google can be taken. We are already familiar with these two websites. When you first started using Facebook, you can see that the interface of the site is different now.

We have a different kind of attachment to the same old interface. Similarly, many people wonder what the most popular websites were like in the early days. We are also trying to see websites that we saw in the early days, but are now not on the Internet. This information can be useful for that too.

To find out what any website looked like before, follow the steps below:

- First of all click on the link here.

- Then put the URL of the website you want to see (https://techpana.com) in the box that appears there.

-And when the site was active is visible in the calendar.

-Choose a year above. And, click on the date marked in the calendar below.

- After that, it is seen how the site was at that time.

If you once had content on your website, but the website is no longer live, you can view the website archive.

Similarly, you can see what the most popular sites were like in the early days by adopting this trick.

14 Weird Facts From Internet History You Might Not Know

Internet has become common for people now. The idea of what the Internet would be like at one time has now reached the point where there is nothing without the Internet.

However, there are some surprising facts about the history of the internet that we use every day, which not many people know. Here, 14 facts about Internet history are mentioned, which are quite surprising.

1. Free domain registration

Today, domain registration costs an average of one thousand to three thousand rupees. Its price may vary due to various reasons. Some important domains are even auctioned for millions of dollars. But the domain cannot be used for free.

Looking back, there were days when domain registration was free. However, in 1995, domain registration was made free of charge. The first registration started at $100.

2. The first spam email

As the Internet continues to expand, spam email is becoming more common. In order to be careful from spam emails, various alerts are also displayed daily. Many people are aware of this while some have no idea about it. But spam email is nothing new.

The first spam email was sent 44 years ago today. In 1978, a man named 'Gary Thurk' sent spam mail to ARPANET users saying that he would sell computers. However, at that time the said mail was not given the name of spam mail.

This word came only in 1993. In 1993, Usenet users mockingly named such mail as spamming. After this, this word came into use.

3. An old name for the Amazon

Amazon is a company that started as a bookstore. This is something that everyone knows. But few people know that Amazon had a different name at that time.

The old name of the company known today as Amazon was 'Kadabra'. This name was inspired by the word 'abracadabra' used in magic.

The previous Abra was left behind and the name was kept as Kadabra. Later, Jeff Bezos changed the name of the company to Amazon on the advice of his lawyer.

4. The reason why Facebook is blue

When any person chooses the brand color of his company, he chooses the color only by keeping many things in mind. But when choosing the color of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg chose blue because of his eye problems.

He has the problem of 'color blind'. He cannot distinguish red and green colors well. That is why he made the color of Facebook blue.

5. MySpace data prior to 2016 is missing

'Myspace' was once a very famous social network. MySpace was a popular platform for millions of people.

But when the server was changed in 2016, all data before 2016 was lost. In this way, all other data including pictures, videos, songs of MySpace users were deleted.

6. Why is the '@' symbol in the email address?

Email addresses must not contain the '@' symbol. However, the story of its beginning is different.

In the early days, the '@' symbol was one of the least used symbols. So to increase its usage, '@' was made mandatory in every email. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson was looking for a clue to distinguish between a user's username and hostname in email IDs.

He chose this symbol because its use is less compared to other symbols and its use will also increase.

7. The first browser

The world's first browser was the World Wide Web (WWW). Berners Lee also developed a browser called the World Wide Web, which is now known as 'Nexus'.

It worked as both an editor and a browser. However, the use of this browser was not so much.

Therefore, most of the people used to use browsers called Mosaic and Netscape, which were developed soon after this.

8. Meaning of CAPTCHA

Captcha may be a word that many people don't like. Many people may know about captcha, but very few know about its meaning.

Actually CAPTCHA or the full form of CAPTCHA is 'Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computer and Human Apart'. Its meaning is completely attached to it.

Captcha is an automated public test used to determine whether humans and computers are two different things.

9. Google is broken Google

Google's name was not 'Google' before. Its name has changed from Googol to Google.

The actual meaning of Googol is the largest number with 100 zeros. Sean Anderson, the founder of Google, was going to name Google as a platform where endless information is available.

But while registering the domain, he made a spelling mistake and typed Google. That's why its name remained Google.

10. Wi-Fi is not an abbreviation of a word

Many people understand that Wi-Fi is short for 'Wireless Fidelity'. In fact, it is not a short form of any word. The old name of Wi-Fi technology was IEEE 802.

After this name was difficult, to make it easy, this technology was given the name of Wi-Fi. The name Wi-Fi has remained because it matches the word Wi-Fi hi-fi and is easy to remember.

11. The first item sold on the Internet

The size of today's e-commerce market in the world is billions of rupees. But everything starts small. E-commerce was also a small platform in the beginning.

In his book 'The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld', James Bartlett mentioned that the first item sold on the Internet in the world was marijuana.

According to his book, although the marijuana deal was online, the sale was done physically. The first online business was in 1994 when Dan Cone sold music album CDs.

12. Google and Yahoo hired goats

About a decade and a half ago, Google and Yahoo, which we know as big companies, hired goats to clean the grass growing on the land around their offices. The companies had left the goats to graze to clean the grass saying that it would help to reduce carbon emissions.

In 2009, Google hired 200 goats. Earlier, in 2007, Yahoo hired goats to clear grass.

13. First member of the royal family to send an email: Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II was the first member of the British royal family to send email using Arpanet after the establishment of State Signals and Radar in 1997. Although she was the first member to use email, she only joined Twitter in 2014 and Instagram in 2019.

14. Berners-Lee regretted using the double slash (//) symbol in URLs

Berners Lee received a lot of praise for developing URL. But he regretted that he had used two slash symbols after HTTP.

He realized much later that these slashes would have happened even if he had not used them. He felt that it was a waste of his time and paper.