Route 66 on the Internet in 2001

Google, on its 10th anniversary, has brought back its oldest available indexes to show how much the Internet has changed in that relatively short time.

Here’s a “Route 66” search, circa 2001, which turned up a “mere” 110,000 results. A number of Web sites listed no longer exist, and many more had not yet been created.

Swa Frantzen’s Historic66.com, which remains the oldest Internet site on Route 66, was a netvision.be site and can be seen here from that era. Then, as it is now, it was the No. 1 Mother Road site.

Nowadays, if you type in “Route 66” into a Google search, you get more than 10 million results.

One thought on “Route 66 on the Internet in 2001

  1. That really brings back some memories. I recall that the “big three” when I started looking in 1999 were Swa’s, the Federation site, and exmachina.net. The first two are still going strong but exmachina left the web some time back and I was happy to see a partial archive of it in the Google flashback. The site was much more than a one book advertisement but it did seem to exist primarily to market “A Guidebook to the Mother Road” by Moore & Grauwels. I used the book on my 1999 trip and believe I bought it through the exmachina website. I’ve always assumed the Bob Moore ran the site but I don’t actually know that.

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