example .zomdir .com

It's nice to have your own sample web page because then you know how stable it is. Let me explain.

In retrospect, I should have created example .zomdir .com as my first website. Then I would have had a stable test site for Website Quality at a Glance. Instead of my own test site, I tested with example.com.

Screenshot of example .zomdir .com

Using example.com as test website was a big mistake, this because example.com turned out to be less stable than I expected. It took me quite some time to figure out why Website Quality at a Glance wasn't working properly.

example.com

We were able to find out what example.com looked like in the past via the wayback machine.

One of the first mentions of example.com on the Wayback Machine in 2002 shows that example.com was originally an all-HTML page. Screenshot of example.com as seen on the Wayback Machine in 2002

A year later we discovered an extra link to the text document Reserved Top Level DNS Names.

In 2012, example.com redirected to http://www.iana.org/domains/example/ (which nowadays redirects to Example Domains). Screenshot of example.com as seen on the Wayback Machine in 2012

In 2014, example.com consisted of HTML plus some CSS. Screenshot of example.com as seen on the Wayback Machine in 2014

In 2026, example.com still consisted of HTML and CSS (although this has changed slightly). "Learn more" links to Example Domains. Screenshot of example.com as seen on the Wayback Machine in 2014

So that was one of my first lessons on the internet. Using someone else's material can be risky. After all, you have no control over it.

example .zomdir .com is just like the 2026 version of example.com a simple, static, motherfucking website supplemented with some simple CSS.

The source code of both web pages can be easily compared:

  1. Source code example .zomdir .com (787 characters)
  2. Source code example.com (527 characters)