Great idea. However, from an implementation perspective, it's a little hard to tell what's going on with all the flashing images. Maybe show the first image by default, then wait for a mouseover or something to activate the animated gif.
Here's AirBnB's for example: http://bakztfuture.github.io/startuptimelines/airbnb/index.h...
Maybe slower images with a link back to archive.org and let people navigate the timeline directly would be more appropriate.
I really want people to get "hooked" right off the bat on the homepage, so, I will try to come up with a better solution later tomorrow. I was initially gonna do mouseovers like above, but didn't feel that would work on mobile.