The Wayback Machine is proof of just how far back you can go to find something you’d thought was hidden from everyone from now on. That’s not the case. As with the example shown in the screenshot above, each of those links are a snapshot of my personal website going back as far as 1998. A snapshot was taken each month and you can see how the design has changed and progressed through that time.

The text is all visible that was on the site each of those times, but any images that were part of the webpage are not available if they’re still not on the server in the locations specified with the original page.

It’s so crazy to go back and see these old versions of sites and how they looked all those years ago. You can use the Wayback Machine to find an old version of just about any website.

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My boss uncovered this site to me the other day.

Lost America is devoted to those areas in our country we see and forget or for many of us have never seen. The difference is that the creator uses night photography and processing to really make these “dead” places come alive to the site visitor.

In the late 80’s, he sat in on a few night photography classes and when the subject of light-painting came up briefly, he had a revelation. Here were techniques that were perfect to capture the atmosphere and mystery of these modern ghost towns. The time-exposures allow the stars to spiral in space and the clouds to smear ethereally across the sky. Through the 90s he developed and perfected his technique of simple, yet effective, hand-held lighting. Since 1998 lostamerica.com has been online in one form or another. Over the past 9 years his low cost / high impact lighting techniques have been implemented by amateur and professional photographers all over the world.

Some really great stuff if you like photography, history and unique images of things long forgotten and missing.

Uncover www.lostamerica.com on the Internet

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