Game
Guess the Year ????

A PageRewind game

Guess the Year

You get an old homepage of a famous website. Drag the slider to the year you think the Internet Archive captured it. Five rounds, up to 100 points each: exactly right is 100, every year off costs 20.

2134 archived homepages of 90 websites: addictinggames.com, adobe.com, altavista.com, blizzard.com, blogger.com, deviantart.com, discord.com, ea.com, friendster.com, gamefaqs.com, gamespot.com, geocities.com, habbo.com, hotmail.com, icq.com, ign.com, kongregate.com, last.fm, napster.com, newgrounds.com, nike.com, nokia.com, orkut.com, skype.com, spacejam.com, winamp.com, wordpress.com, xbox.com, cartoonnetwork.com, clubpenguin.com, disney.com, huffpost.com, lego.com, mcdonalds.com, minecraft.net, miniclip.com, nick.com, nintendo.com, openai.com, playstation.com, pokemon.com, roblox.com, runescape.com, soundcloud.com, steampowered.com, tesla.com, theguardian.com, ask.com, bestbuy.com, bing.com, etsy.com, hulu.com, lycos.com, walmart.com, aol.com, bbc.co.uk, craigslist.org, digg.com, dropbox.com, ebay.com, espn.com, expedia.com, facebook.com, github.com, google.com, ikea.com, instagram.com, linkedin.com, msn.com, nytimes.com, paypal.com, reddit.com, spotify.com, stackoverflow.com, tumblr.com, twitch.tv, twitter.com, wikipedia.org, yahoo.com, zillow.com, myspace.com, cnn.com, imdb.com, youtube.com, airbnb.com, pinterest.com, apple.com, microsoft.com, amazon.com and netflix.com.

Guess the Year
Address…
Archived homepage capture, year hidden
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Score 0
Captures: Wayback Machine
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How it works

  1. Each round shows the first screen of a real homepage capture from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The website is named; the year is not.
  2. Look for clues: the logo, the browser era of the layout, prices, product names, headlines, the copyright line.
  3. After each guess you can open the archived page, read the website's story, or see every homepage from that year.

Practice first: browse the homepages year by year.