Our own wayback machine

Remember the Wayback Machine? It’s a fun service that allows you to check out old websites as they looked back in the day. I loved that service. Bringing up old memories is so powerful. 

Here’s Tumblr’s home page from May 2007. And here’s Flickr in 2004

One of my favorite mobile apps is Timehop. It connects to many popular services (twitter, facebook, instagram, flickr, foursquare) and each day it surfaces what you shared exactly 1 year ago that day. I open the app every single morning and just smile (or cry

Twitter recently released an update to their search and now old tweets show up in the results. This morning I started playing with it and found some fun stuff. I thought I’d share a few.

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My first tweet. April 7, 2007.

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I ended up supporting Obama then (and now) and happy about that. Hopefully we will also see Hilary Clinton run. She would get my vote. 

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That day when @fredwilson invented #coverfriday on Tumblr

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Life before the iPhone. 

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That day when location + mobile + photos hit me right between the eyes.