How old is this website?
The Internet Archive has been photographing the web since 1996. Enter a domain and get its life story: first capture, one snapshot per year, and the years that went missing.
Data comes live from the Internet Archive. Big domains can take a few seconds.
What this returns
True age
The first time the Internet Archive ever captured the domain, which is usually close to when the site went live.
One snapshot per year
A year-by-year timeline with a direct link to each capture on web.archive.org. Watch the redesigns happen.
Gaps in the record
Years where the archive saw nothing. Long gaps often mean downtime, a domain change, or a robots.txt that blocked archiving.
Bragging rights
Whether the site is older than YouTube, the iPhone, or ChatGPT. Useful in exactly one kind of argument.
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Questions about the Website Time Machine
How does it know how old a website is?
It asks the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for every capture of the domain, collapsed to one per year. The first capture is the earliest public proof the site existed; the domain itself can be older.
Why are there gaps in the timeline?
The archive captures sites on its own schedule. A gap means no capture that year: the site was offline, blocked the archive, or simply was not crawled.
