By using the Wayback Machine, I was able to find a lot of interesting things on TV Tropes from before I started reading.
Like, for example, how when the site was new, there was a page in Darth Wiki to complain about shows you don’t like. It was quickly scrapped. Or how certain tropes that are definition-only for flame bait reasons, like Idiot Plot, used to have examples before they became too controversial. I think I’m going to use the site more to check out TV Tropes’ past.