Wayback Machine
Is an online time machine that archives old websites and thus creates a historical reference work on how websites have developed. For technical reasons, some images and other media files may be missing from these archived pages.
The earliest web pages in the Wayback Machine's archive are from 1996 and the youngest are only a few months old. In total, approximately 150 billion web pages are archived in the Wayback Machine.
NOTICE: The links below are via the Wayback Machine. Slekt1 therefore cannot guarantee that they will work all the time.
Digital Archive
According to Norid, the domain Digitalarkivet.no was registered for the first time on March 5, 2001. Digitalarkivet is the undisputed first choice for genealogists. Here you can find church books, censuses, land registers, probate material, census records, etc. However, it has not always been so...
We found the census records as early as 2002, but there are still about four years to go before the offer of photographed church books is available. The probate material was not in place until December 2009.
Some examples:
If you click on the user forum you can see that there was a high level of activity even 6 years ago. However, there were somewhat fewer forums than today, only "archive forum" and "user forum" were available. "Forum for source registration" and "Forum for scanned church books" came later.
See the full overview for Digitalarkivet.no at the Wayback Machine.
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BID
DIS-Norge was online earlier than the Digital Archives. DisNorge.no was registered as early as November 15, 1999. The special thing is that the Wayback Machine finds a website from Disnorge.no as early as December 6, 1998. Three years later, the site looked like this:
This design lasted for several years, first on the spring of 2005 came the more familiar design of DIS-Norway.
Norwegian Genealogical Society
Two months after the domain genealogi.no was created, we find the first example of what the Norwegian Genealogical Association's website looked like in the early days, November 9, 2000.
Three years later, these websites had also changed radically. On November 20, 2003 they looked like this (image below)
After a quick trip in the summer of 2003 to a ephemeral design, the Norwegian Family History Association got its more well-known designs in the second half of 2003.
See the full overview for genealogi.no at the Wayback Machine.
Slekt.no
On June 19, 2000, the domain for the news provider Slekt.no was registered. The first example from the "old days" that the Wayback Machine manages to find is from August 23rd the same year.
Slekt.no has changed quite a bit over time, which is already evident the year after the website was launched. September 23, 2001 it looked completely different. And so it continued, subsequent years the website had once again undergone a major change in appearance.
