Okay, maybe I could have come up with a catchier title, but that's what this deviation is; it's an investigation that I conducted into how the look of deviantART has changed over the six years that it has been online.

This investigation took nearly a month to do. It is basically around a dozen screenshots of deviantART's home page and a description of how it has changed.

This took a lot of work, so I would be grateful for any feedback (good or bad). I encourage you all to take a look at it, I think you will all find it interesting to see how this community has evolved.

One last thing: it is quite a large image, I apologize for that. Any smaller would make some of the things in the screenshots hard to see.

Check it out!
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EDIT: This was updated on August 7^th, 2006 (deviantART's sixth birthday). The updates include a few spelling mistakes, sharpening of a few of the screenshots, and of course a new explanation of the final screenshot so that it no longer refers to version 5 as the future when it is now the present!

EPIC EDIT: Updated to include dA version 6 and to kill some time.

A huge thank you to the hundreds of comments and favourites that this deviation has received, even $spyed gave this a favourite (click here if you don't believe me)! The response and support that you have given me is overwhelming, and I cannot thank you enough. I wish I could every single deviant that views this, maybe one day I will!

Don't forget to let me know if there are mistakes or things I have left out in this deviation! I promise my feelings won't be hurt too much.

Sincerely,
~T1SF