For this week’s Wayback Wednesday, we’re going to have a little bit of fun with archive.org’s aptly-titled Wayback Machine! The Wayback Machine is an archive of previous iterations of the web, and there are some fun versions of jarsofclay.com saved there…
- Not much remains of the original website from 1996, but there’s some fun “news” about the band’s Coca-Cola jingle. (Careful, you might want to make sure you’re using at least Netscape 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 before you click!)
- We also have very little of their website from 1997, but you might remember the iconic Much Afraid-era couch photo and funky page titles like “the dirt” and “swag and threads”…
- Bits and pieces of the If I Left the Zoo website have survived from 1999-2000, including a letter from the band to fans just prior to the album’s release.
- Unfortunately, in 2002 the site went flash-based, so we don’t have anything from the Eleventh Hour era.
- The same is true for their 2003 website for Who We Are Instead.
- Thankfully, the flash container from the 2005 Redemption Songs website was archived! Although the site’s content is inaccessible, it’s still fun to poke around and see how everything functioned.
- A good deal of the 2006 Good Monsters website was saved, too. This version of the site linked to our forum as the band’s message board!
- Once the band went independent, their website became much more quirky. The 2008 website featured an interactive head. Take a look and you’ll see what we mean.
- The band’s 2010 website for The Shelter took on a more practical, blog-like format.
- By 2012, the band’s official website settled down as a content-rich landing page, pointing visitors to various sources for news, music, videos, and more.
- And of course, don’t forget to visit today‘s official website for music, tour dates, and more!
Is there something you’d like to see featured on Wayback Wednesday? Let us know! Send an e-mail to jarsofclayfans {at} gmail [dotcom].