I’m having some great fun this morning playing around with Google’s index from January 2001 (made available to celebrate Google’s 10th birthday). Results also link through to the Internet Archive so you can see what those sites looked like at around the same time.

Some fun queries:

• site:wikipedia.com (they hadn’t moved to their .org home at that stage)
  
• “upload videos” compared to today’s results
• “subprime mortgage” risk. How funny.
• “social network” points to academic work in Sociology

I could do this for hours!

Let me know if you come across any interesting results.