Wayback Machine
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.
- Free • Proprietary
- Web Archiving Service
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
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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Tags
- Web Archiving
- Google Chrome Extension
- Firefox Extension
- Broken Links
- Web Cache
- internet-archive
- archives
- Search Engine
- dead-pages
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Wayback Machine is awesome for outages or links that doesn't work anymore! I love it!
I like tracking down old or missing sites. Wayback is a big help.
Strength:
• Free • Fast • Able to fully archive almost any types of PDF files
Challenge:
• Censorship. The downside with Wayback Machine (WB) is that it often censored archived content. Compare to both ArchiveBox (AB) or Archive Today (AT) which do NOT censor archived legal content.
• Weaker security and weaker privacy than ArchiveBox (AB) at https://archivebox.io ___• Why better is AB better? Because AB software as stronger security & stronger privacy. Why? Because AB code is open source. This means that it is available for both public review & contributions. Compare to AT and WB which have weaker security & weaker privacy. As they are not open source.
Notes:
• Archive Today (AT) ___• https://archive.today ___• https://twitter.com/archiveis ___• https://blog.archive.today
• ArchiveBox (AB) ___• Even better than both AT and WB is AB at https://archivebox.io ___• Why better? Because AB software as stronger security & stronger privacy. Why? Because AB code is open source. This means that it is available for both public review & contributions. Compare to AT and WB which have weaker security & weaker privacy. As they are not open source.
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!
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.
It saves many websites after their creator stopped it. Very easy to use and you can save any website.
I like it for viewing old versions of my site and many others!