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Wayback Machine

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With the power of the Wayback Machine, you can go back in time to see how a website has changed and evolved through the history of the Web.

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Top Positive Comment
Thelle Christensen
Oct 30, 2012
3

Wayback Machine is awesome for outages or links that doesn't work anymore! I love it!

Top Negative Comment
spame
Dec 15, 2023
3

It's known that they censor a lot of content

Kovah
Mar 24, 2025
0

I really want the Wayback Machine to be a great working archive of internet content. But it's utterly slow, the API is more broken than it's working, robots.txt is followed, it is known to be censored, and the list goes on. Sad that the people behind the Internet Archive seem to focus more on pirating books and pissing of the entire publishing industry, than building a reliable, modern web archive.

RemovedUser
Dec 12, 2023
0

One of the greatest internet inventions. Go back in past and feel some nostalgia seeing good old websites again!

William Tumeo
May 18, 2023
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BubbleTea
Jun 3, 2022
0

It's one of the most valuable online tools I have ever came across.

Dead link? Not a problem. Want to prove something was changed or even existed at all? There you go. I use it every single day. I have no idea how else would I cite a website or a PDF file that might get deleted.

I have donated to support their infrastructure multiple times, and I think that this service is one of the greatest achievements of our times. You can expose liars and reference unpleasant truths. I love it!

Lunatica
Dec 28, 2020
3

Useless as an web archiving solution as it respects robots.txt, even for snapshots prior to an robots.txt filter on example.com. One of the most frustrating cases is when the website owner deliberately archived it on Wayback, but then lost the domain registry, someone else bought it and put a robots.txt on it, and all the archive on wayback automatically got deleted. Don't use wayback. And I don't even got in how this is so much power/responsibility for Internet Archive alone, and should be in a decentralized way instead.

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What is Wayback Machine?

Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit online-application that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

Use the Chrome and the Firefox extension to automatically replace 404 error pages with archived versions of websites.

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Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Wayback Machine, and it has gotten 303 likes

Wayback Machine was added to AlternativeTo by Wizek on May 29, 2010 and this page was last updated Sep 13, 2024.