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Go back in time? To Veeam planet a long long time ago? Internet Archive will help.

  • October 20, 2025
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Geoff Burke
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Ever wondered what Veeam looked like back in the day? Well why wonder when you can go and check it out for yourself! That the internet archive https://archive.org/ in the WayBackMachine search bar let’s go back in time and take a look at Veeam. 

WayBackMachine

The internet archive takes snapshots of websites and here we see what pops up for Veeam:

Calendar

We all know that Veeam began its journey way back in 2006 so let’s take a peak:

2006

It looks like the Veeam website came online on August 21 

August 21

There were 5 snapshots taken that day:

Snapshots

Let’s take a peak:

Veeam!

It looks like Veeam offered only a Veeam Monitor and Veeam Scanner, plus for free FastSCP for VMware ESX Server! 

I don’t see any forums yet, let’s choose another date, how about November 8th:


 

 

Look! I see the famous Veeam Forums have appeared:

Forums

Ok we have to look in there! You can only dig so deep in the archive and I won’t claim to know why and how much it actually it saves. 

Forums

Now I want to see what was happening with that FastSCP product!

Right from the get go Veeam’s forums were very popular and wait! I see someone I know 😁there with a last post meaning he solved the issue!

Forum

Anyone want to guess who the mysterious Veeam veteran is?

 

 

4 comments

Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • 9583 comments
  • October 20, 2025
 
 
 

coolsport00
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  • Veeam Legend
  • 4903 comments
  • October 21, 2025

Never heard of that site before. Neat. Think I started my Veeam journey around 2009’ish…. 🤔


Scott
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  • Veeam Legend
  • 1110 comments
  • October 24, 2025

Wow, that is some history right there. Crazy how much things have changed :) 


Jean.peres.bkp
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  • Veeam Legend
  • 161 comments
  • October 26, 2025