Thankful for the Wayback Machine

Screenshot of the Wayback Machine home page, highlighting their search, collection service, subscriptions, and saving a page.

I’ve been a fan and supporter of the Wayback Machine for years.

If you’re not familiar with it, the Wayback Machine is the digital archive of the World Wide Web.

Created in 1996 by the Internet Archive nonprofit organization, the Wayback Machine was made public in 2001 and allows people to save pages as well as see how a page looks like in the past.

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How To Find Your First Tweet

First tweet search tool interface

Happy birthday Twitter!

In celebration of its eighth birthday, Twitter created the First Tweets site that allows you to find your first tweet.

Not only could you find your first tweet, you could enter any Twitter username to find their first tweet.

People were excited to share their first tweet using the hashtag #FirstTweet.

Sadly, the First Tweets site is no more. Twitter took it down.

But, there is still an option, with more steps, for you to find your first tweet.

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