I would like to build a webservice to visualize historical changelogs in OSM data

Hello everyone,
I am new here and english ist not my native language so I`m sorry for mistakes and inconveniences.
I am a college Student of Geoscience and I started a project some weeks ago.
I built an Tileserver which gives out a slippy map from some european countries I renderd from osm.pbf files from Geofabrik.de .
It is build on an Ubuntu Server 18.10 LTS, 64Bit, runnig in a VM with an Xeon CPU with 3,70Ghz, but just one Core and 5GB of Ram. It is running an apache server and a Postrgresql-Database with PostGis. I do imports of osm.pbf-files with osm2pgsql, for example Switzerland. For the rendering and tileserving I use Mapnik with renderd and mod_tile. For displaying the map tiles i use Leaflet and Openlayers. It works.

Now i would like to show the change history of nodes, ways and relatives which were done over the last months or years. Something like switzerland on a slippy map and with a manually used switch or slider you can show the same map but a month ago or a year by sliding left or right.
First I thougth about to download the oldest planet.osm.pbf file from Geofabrik.de from 2013, use the tool osmconvert to get the data from switzerland and import this data in Postgresql.
Then render new tiles of the old switzerland dataset and let them be served from a second mod_tile (mod_tile2) directory.
Then I could use a javascript layerswipe in openlayers, to show a map from 2018 and switch to layer upon to show the same map from 2013.
For example like this comparison of OpenStreetMap from 2008 but with a slider - (http://osmz.ru/osm2008.html#8/47.066/8.550)
If this should work i repeat the procedure with 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Starting by every first Planet.osm.pbf of a year.

My real questions are now, how stupid is this idea?
Would this work the way I planned or should I dump this idea?
Where are the problems and risks ... or impossibilities?
Where could I find even older OSM data to work with?
I searched the net for solutions like this but didn`t found a similar procedure.

I know there a better ways to show the history of changes in OSM maps. But I lack the knowledge and the comprehension to get to a complex solution like these ones. And I don`t know if my tileserver as it is now ... and my skills, are suited for these kind of solutions.

A more fashionable solution would be a gif animation like from the gallery of Geofabrik.de to show the historical developement from 2006 to 2009.
http://www.geofabrik.de/de/gallery/history/index.html

I am also very interested in a solution like the awesome project of the user "yogi__ks" as an kind of overlay on a existing map:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/yogi_ks/diary/35067
Will test this out separately on a second VM

I would appreciate every suggestion, scolding or educational web link.

Thank you very much for reading and for responding. And sorry for this amount of text.