"The what now?" you ask. The Wayback Machine, available through http://archive.org, is a digital archive of the World Wide Web established by the Internet Archive way back (intentional) in 1996. Essentially, the service crawls websites and saves snapshots at various times. Entering a website address into the Wayback Machine returns a calendar of snapshots and you can then select which version of the website you want to look through. In my case, August 2013 was the right month.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
It can be fun to look at the changing face of a company's online brand or even reminisce at the giants that were and have faded into interweb legend: just take at gander at my favourite search engine of the late nineties and early noughties, the ever polite and helpful Ask Jeeves.
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