See what Elon Musk’s X.com looked like through the years
Twitter, or what Elon Musk calls X, now uses the URL X.com. A year and a half after he took the social media company private, its rebrand as X is complete. For what it’s worth, Twitter.com still takes you to what many — most? — of us still call Twitter.
All core systems are now on https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy pic.twitter.com/cwWu3h2vzr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2024
This is not Musk’s first company called X. In fact, he started X.com, an online bank that would become PayPal, back in 1999. Musk bought that url back from PayPal in 2017. In other words, the Gen Xer has long thought calling something “X” was cool.
Anyway, in honor of the URL rebranding, we thought it would be fun to look at where X.com used to bring you at various points in its history, courtesy of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
1999: Before Musk owned the URL it looks like it belonged to a software engineer, Robert Walker.
2000: Here it is as the website for Musk’s second company, online bank X.com.
2001: X.com became PayPal.
2007: It later became something called PayPal Labs, “PayPal's showcase site which allows you to take our experimental products for a spin.” PayPal had been acquired by eBay in 2002.
2013: In the 2010s, it was a relatively slick website for “x.commerce an eBay Inc. company”
2024: And now it’s the site we know and hate.
1999: Before Musk owned the URL it looks like it belonged to a software engineer, Robert Walker.
2000: Here it is as the website for Musk’s second company, online bank X.com.
2001: X.com became PayPal.
2007: It later became something called PayPal Labs, “PayPal's showcase site which allows you to take our experimental products for a spin.” PayPal had been acquired by eBay in 2002.
2013: In the 2010s, it was a relatively slick website for “x.commerce an eBay Inc. company”
2024: And now it’s the site we know and hate.
