Here's what your Twitter timeline would've looked like 10 years ago

Twitter a la 2008.
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Johnny Lieu
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Ah, 2008.

You might not remember, but those were the days when the term "Web 2.0" was thrown around like it was going out of fashion (it eventually did), and Pownce was used in the same sentence as Twitter.

Speaking of Twitter, what happened in your 2008 feed? You can take a look at what your timeline would've looked like ten years ago, based on the accounts you follow now, in a neat link spotted by technologist Andy Baio.

Here's what it'd look like.

It's a real weird time, where retweets weren't a thing yet. Retweets were added to the platform in 2009, which honestly feels like an age ago.

Of course, you can adjust the dates in the URL's search string, depending on what period you'd like to see on your timeline.

Whatever you find, Twitter was certainly a much purer place back then, where we'd tell people the innocuous, mundane ins and outs of our lives.

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Mashable Australia's Web Culture Reporter.Reach out to me on Twitter at @Johnny_Lieu or via email at jlieu [at] mashable.com

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