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
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
Summary
Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Wayback Machine, and it has gotten 221 likes
- Developed by Internet Archive
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.4
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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.
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!