The USMS Website Wayback Machine
The USMS website has undergone several changes since its inception in 1996. There have been two wholesale redesigns of the website look and feel, plus a number of incremental changes in between the major redesigns. Click on the below links to see how it has changed.
1996 - The beginning
December 1998 - First Major Redesign
February 2005 - Second Major Redesign
January 2009 - Minor Updates
September 2012 - Minor Updates
Great stuff! The Streamlines newsletters call out cool swimming websites; I think the time has come to recognize the swimming web sites that continue to honor the spirit of the mid-90's. Typical characteristics:
HTML written in a text editor
Page title is a placeholder like "Home" or "Untitled"
horrible background graphics
Comic Sans (yeah, I went there)
has not been updated since... umm...
Ah, I remember those days well. Some suggestions for tiebreakers:
-- lots of animated gifs:banana:
-- fonts in different colors
-- music that plays when the website opens
-- liberal use of frames
Great stuff! The Streamlines newsletters call out cool swimming websites; I think the time has come to recognize the swimming web sites that continue to honor the spirit of the mid-90's. Typical characteristics:
HTML written in a text editor
Page title is a placeholder like "Home" or "Untitled"
horrible background graphics
Comic Sans (yeah, I went there)
has not been updated since... umm...
Ah, I remember those days well. Some suggestions for tiebreakers:
-- lots of animated gifs:banana:
-- fonts in different colors
-- music that plays when the website opens
-- liberal use of frames
