In celebration of their 10th birthday, the folks over at Google have put up a special site which uses their oldest available search index, from 2001.  It doesn't take very long to realize how many places you go on the web didn't exist only a few years ago.  No Hobart, no Barrelhouse, no SLQ or Storyglossia.  Juked existed in a completely different form, which I've never seen before.  Same with elimae (whose cached site doesn't quite work).  

The thousands of posts Dan's written at the Emerging Writers Network?  Gone.

As for myself, I hadn't appeared on the internet yet either.  Not once, as far as I can tell.  I definitely hadn't published any fiction yet.  Similarly, no Josh Maday or Aaron Burch or Elizabeth Ellen or Blake Butler.  The other Barry Graham was around, but not the one we know and love.  

There were also 185,000,000 less hits for porn back then.  Man, the internet used to totally suck.

[via Techcrunch]

UPDATE: I went to look at this other form of Juked, only to realize that it's actually a placeholder page that John put up between versions-- the napkin on the page I linked to is actually a plan for the "new" version that was upcoming at that time.  Pretty interesting.  I had no idea Juked had been around since 1998, either.  That's amazing, and has to make them one of the first web mags to hit their ten year anniversary when they do so in December.  So humble, Mr. Wang!