You may be familiar with the “wayback machine”. If not, you should be! It’s an archive of the internet. Yep, the whole thing. For how long? You guessed it — way back.
Anyway, as I was updating our website and and proudly showing off my work, one of my co-workers said, “I dunno. Looks OK I guess. I don’t really know what it looked like before”. Thanks Chris. I’ll try not to let my head get too big. So I thought of the wayback machine to show him what I’d improved on. But then I thought, why stop at the last version. Why not go back 20 years to when one of our customers handed me a pirated copy of Dreamweaver 3 (I later bought it. Don’t get all judgy)
Here are some links to various periods. Maybe you’ll get a kick out of it like I did.
| URL | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Birth of artsautomotive.com, and no, I'm not color blind. Why do you ask? | Paul Cortes | 2001 |
| End of the Putty Era | Paul Cortes | 2002 |
| The Birth of Purple | Paul Cortes | 2003 |
| Why would you ever change colors when the site is already purple? | Paul Cortes | 2008 |
| Chris decided to make the site appeal to young people. Due to my condition, I was unable to say if it was effective. | Christian | 2010 |
| Lotsa bling! | Christian | 2014 |
| A cleaner look | Christian | 2018 |
| Finally, Wordpress makes site editing easy again. | Christian | 2019 |
| Back a few milliseconds into the future | Paul Cortes | 2020 |