SKiPSWEB EST. 2001 / 25 YEARS

The archive

25 years of SKiPSWEB.
The evolution.

From a Flash intro built in FrontPage to the site you are reading now. Every screenshot below is a real browser rendering a real Internet Archive capture — nothing here is a recreation.

How to read this page. Each frame is a screenshot taken by a real browser pointed at the Internet Archive's copy of that page. Select any screenshot to open it full size, then use the arrow keys to move between them. "View the archived page" opens the original capture on web.archive.org, where you can click around the site as it was.

2001 15 Jun 2001

The earliest surviving capture

A Microsoft FrontPage page whose entire content was a Macromedia Flash 4 movie, index.swf. What you see here is the Internet Archive's Flash emulator failing to load it — which is, in 2026, the honest state of a 2001 Flash homepage.

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http://www.skipsweb.com/
Captured 2001-06-15 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x900

http://www.skipsweb.com/

Incomplete capture — index.swf — the Flash movie that was the whole page; the archive's emulator cannot fetch it. The archive holds the page, but the browser can no longer draw it.

27 Nov 2001

“No two web sites are the same”

The pitch, already fully formed five months in: “Take your time and browse our portfolio. You will find that no two web sites are the same. We take care to ensure that every website we design is unique and reflects the personality and style of every one of our clients.” Twenty-five years later that is still the argument.

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http://www.skipsweb.com/
Captured 2001-11-27 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x900

http://www.skipsweb.com/

Incomplete capture — the masthead banner and a footer graphic, which the archive did not capture. The archive holds the page, but the browser can no longer draw it.

2002 2 Apr 2002

A full agency site appears

Nine-item navigation — Design, Hosting, Packages, Portfolio, Photos, Maintenance, Contact Us, Links — and the line that still defines the business: “Hi My name is Skip and I design websites for escorts in Chicago.”

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http://www.skipsweb.com/
Captured 2002-04-02 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x900

http://www.skipsweb.com/
9 Jun 2002

The design page

“Your graphic designer should be friendly and genuinely interested in working with you to create a beautiful and functional website that portrays your unique personality and style.”

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http://www.skipsweb.com/design.htm
Captured 2002-06-09 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x900

http://www.skipsweb.com/design.htm
2011 15 Nov 2011

Back, in Flash

“Skipsweb. Escort Website Design.” The page asks for a newer Adobe Flash Player; its meta generator tag reads “FW 8 DW 8 HTML” — Fireworks 8 and Dreamweaver 8.

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http://www.skipsweb.com/
Captured 2011-11-15 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x900

http://www.skipsweb.com/

Incomplete capture — Flash movie (plugin removed from all browsers). The archive holds the page, but the browser can no longer draw it.

20 Sep 2012

Published rates, in full

A complete rate card and a mission statement: “To provide you with a quality website within a couple of days. To provide you support and guidance.” Archival pricing — not current.

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http://skipsweb.com/escort_web_design.php
Captured 2012-09-20 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x900

http://skipsweb.com/escort_web_design.php
27 Feb 2013

“Designing Escort Websites since 1999”

The site's own masthead claims 1999 — two years earlier than the first Wayback capture. See archive/research/FINDINGS.md.

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http://skipsweb.com/escort-web-design.php?page=Home
Captured 2013-02-27 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x900

http://skipsweb.com/escort-web-design.php?page=Home

2014 Captures exist for 2014 but show the same design as 2013, so no separate frame is included.

2015 30 Dec 2015

A search engine, not a studio

skipsweb.com relaunches as a review search and directory with email and phone lookup — the direct ancestor of the data platform the business runs today.

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http://www.skipsweb.com/
Captured 2015-12-30 · screenshot taken 2026-10-13 at 1280x590
Shorter viewport: this frame deliberately stops above the page's third-party advertising.

http://www.skipsweb.com/

2018 – 2020 Captures thin out and then stop carrying page content.

Then / now

2012, and today.

The same business, the same person, the same clients — fourteen years apart. Drag the handle, or focus it and use the arrow keys.

Screenshot of http://www.skipsweb.com/ as archived on 2012-09-20: Skipsweb Designs.
Screenshot of the SKiPSWEB homepage as it looks in 2026.
2012 2026

Left: skipsweb.com as captured on 2012-09-20 (view the archived page). Right: this site, captured at the same 1280×900 viewport.

Where this came from, and what was left out

The Internet Archive holds 6,681 successful captures of skipsweb.com between 2001 and today. The frames above were selected to show each distinct design, not every capture.

Two things were deliberately excluded. The directory-era pages from 2015–2017 published thousands of third-party email addresses and phone numbers; none of that is reproduced here, and the two frames from that era were captured at a shorter viewport so they stop above the advertising. Client sites from the 2002 portfolio are not shown at all, because the people behind them never agreed to appear on this page.

Prices and testimonials visible inside any screenshot were true on the capture date and are not current. For what things cost now, ask.


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Twenty-five years of this. Yours is next.

Whatever era your current site belongs to, it can be brought forward — and you will not lose your domain, your rankings or your content doing it.

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Not an account manager, not a reseller, not a chatbot. The person who replies to your message is the person who builds and maintains the site — and who has been doing it for this industry since 2001.

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