View Deleted Web Pages and Internet History: Wayback Machine!

SITE NAME AND LINKS:

• Site Name: Internet Archive – Wayback Machine

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• Official URL: https://web.archive.org/ (Main Digital Library: https://archive.org/)

• Origin / Service Language: USA (Internet Archive - San Francisco-based non-profit organization) / English

• About and Terms of Use: https://archive.org/about/

• When you click on a very important page that you have saved in your bookmarks while doing research "404 Page Not Found" error? Or when you realize that a company today deleted a promise or price list they wrote on their website last month "I wish I had taken a screenshot yesterday"? Even more fun; Have you ever wondered exactly what the first websites, newspapers you used in the early 2000s, or your own old site looked like 20 years ago? Here is the internet's real time machine Wayback Machine (web.archive.org), since 1996 More than 800 billion web pages keeps its snapshot!

  Most people have heard of this site, but they do not know about its two amazing features: First, "Changes" feature, you can open two different dates of a web page side by side and see which words on the site have been deleted or changed with colored highlights! The second is "Save Page Now" box, you can instantly record the current version of that page in your digital history for evidence even if it is deleted in the future!

• STEP BY STEP USE:

  1. From your browser https://web.archive.org/.

  2. In the search bar in the middle of the screen, paste the full address (URL) of the website that has been deleted or whose previous version you want to see and Enter.

  3. Introducing A strip of years stretching from 1996 to 2026 and the calendar will appear below; click on the year you want and days marked with blue/green circle hover over one and select the time.

  4. Within seconds, an exact working copy of that website on the date you selected (for example, 15 years ago or last week) will be opened!

  5. For advanced use: "Changes" tab or on the main page "Save Page Now" box and "Save Page" to archive that page immediately against deletion.

• REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITS: No membership or payment required, completely free. To collect only the pages you have archived yourself in your personal list ("My Web Archive") or archive.org, you can open a free account. Password-protected private pages or robot-blocking sites are not included in the archive.

• PRIVACY AND SECURITY: An official non-profit digital library. Important Privacy Notice: When using the "Save Page Now" feature, do not paste URLs that contain your private information, open session links or confidential documents; because every page you save here becomes a permanent part of the public internet archive.

• ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES AND WHOM IT IS SUITABLE FOR:

  • Advantages: Massive memory of 800+ billion pages since 1996, recovery of deleted (404) pages, comparison of text changes between two dates ("Changes"), instant page archiving for evidence purposes, free and ad-free.

  • Disadvantages: Old archived pages may take a few seconds longer to load than regular websites; The interface is in English.

  • Who is it suitable for: Researchers, journalists, lawyers, nostalgia/history content creators (especially those who create Y2K and internet history videos!), students, and consumers.

• BRIEF CONCLUSION: To both recover a deleted article and take a nostalgic time travel web.archive.org is unique. First, write the address of your favorite site and in 2000 or 2005 design!