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March 3, 2009 5:01 PM

Is there a way of seeing what the New York Times had on the front page of their website at certain times in the recent past?

I know this is easy to find the front page of the actual newspaper, but I'm wondering if there's something similar for the website.

posted by typography to technology (6 comments total)

I have seen this book in many bookstores. You can just flip through it, go to any date, and check the headlines for the NY Times for that day
posted by Flood at 5:33 PM on March 3

There are a few options. First, at the top of NYTimes.com there's a tab for "Today's Paper" listing all stories posted to the site today, organized by section. At the bottom of that page there's a mini-calendar with links to stories from each day in the last week (formatted the same way). And next to that there's a search box that will return all stories published on a given date -- this one's not as slick or organized as the "Today's Paper" part, but serviceable.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:47 PM on March 3

If it's a day that has historical significance, you might find it at the Newseum.
posted by katemcd at 5:56 PM on March 3

I'd say it's impossible: The New York Times' websites is very dynamic, often changing hourly. There might be fifteen different versions of nytimes.com for even today.
posted by trotter at 6:27 PM on March 3

The New York Times has a daily archive of their website's front page going back to Sept. 5th, 2000.

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2000/09/05/

You can navigate adjusting the date in the URL. Here are a few examples:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2001/09/11/
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2005/08/30/
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/02/21/
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/02/22/
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/02/23/
posted by joe vrrr at 8:53 PM on March 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

Thanks Joe! It's not hourly updates, but it'll do just fine.
posted by typography at 2:03 PM on March 4