BackYardChickens.com on "The Wayback Machine" -- Check out the evolution of BYC over time!

[The Chicken Lady]

BYC has changed over and over again since 2000, according to The Wayback Machine, which is an archive of web pages.

The following is really, REALLY cool... Check it out!

Here's the site homepage: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20110709233229*/https://www.backyardchickens.com/ Use the bar at the top to view available snapshots of BYC year-by-year, and click on the blue circles (included in a few months each year) to see different views over time.

Here's what the forum looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/20110518191904/https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/ Notice how different forum categories changed.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Here's back when the forum community reached 10,000 members, and as a gift to the community, we started the free image hosting service:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080509191448/https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Here's the old "Buy ~ Sell ~ Trade ~ Giveaways" section from 2007...

http://web.archive.org/web/20071212075355/https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=19

 

[The Chicken Lady]

A day back in 2007 when there were only 9 people viewing the forum, and out of those, 5 were lurkers... (Less than 500 total members back then -- wow!)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070211222855/https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/

 

[Lothiriel]

Wow.... What a huge difference between then and now. BYC has certainly come a LONG way, and has become one of the best sites on the internet.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

The homepage from February 2004... What is that yellow, slug-looking thing in tennis shoes? Where is Tudy?

http://web.archive.org/web/20040220064904/https://www.backyardchickens.com/

**Notice that our pal Tudy got a bit of a makeover for the change to this new forum platform, too! She now has more of a comb and some tailfeathers.

 

[Lothiriel]

The homepage from February 2004... What is that yellow, slug-looking thing in tennis shoes? Where is Tudy?

http://web.archive.org/web/20040220064904/https://www.backyardchickens.com/

**Notice that our pal Tudy got a bit of a makeover for the change to this new forum platform, too! She now has more of a comb and some tailfeathers.

That is supposed to be Tudy?!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

That is supposed to be Tudy?!

Hee hee. Honestly, I have no idea *what* that is.

 

[buckabucka]

This was cool to see!
Thanks!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

This was cool to see!
Thanks!

No prob. As you can see, this isn't the first time BYC has gone over a bit of a makeover.