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Version Museum (versionmuseum.com)
86 points by jaden on Aug 19, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


I built a similar site: https://theymadethat.com

The main differences are that 1. it's user editable, and 2. each version is an individual profile that can list creators and parts.

https://theymadethat.com/things/k4z/iphone

https://theymadethat.com/things/k4z/iphone/show_versions

https://theymadethat.com/things/6wy/apple-macintosh

https://theymadethat.com/things/6wy/apple-macintosh/show_ver...

The UX / UI needs a major overhaul though. (Feel free to make any suggestions, and I'll try to address it)

I tend to treat it like my personal Pokemon collection. Every other week, I check out searches with no hits, and I add new entries based on them.

I also added some YC companies (and their founders & products) there just for fun. What's interesting is how incestuous the YC ecosystem is. From what I've seen with the data, the best way to get into YC as a founder is to work for a YC company.


The logo of this site is remarkably similar to that of the Internet Archive, which serves a similar purpose (in fact, much of the Version Museum content cites the Wayback Machine). For a moment I couldn't figure out if this was an official project of the Internet Archive or not. It does not appear to be.


Internet Archive provides the raw data, while this one provides commentary on top of it. I think it's an appreciable difference.


It's missing the abandoned 2014 redesign of Facebook: https://dcurt.is/facebooks-predicament


Always interesting to see how fast things have changed in terms of how websites are designed.




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