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The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past.
The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.
The Internet Archive provides a browser add-on that can be used to easily access pages on the Wayback Machine for the currently viewed site, along with options to save a copy of the page to the Wayback Machine. Currently, versions of the add-on are available for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.
A web archiving service allows Wikipedia editors to reduce link rot by preserving a copy of an online source that can be accessed if the original page is moved, changes, or disappears. Not all web pages can be archived using archive.today. archive.today can archive HTML web pages, style sheets, JavaScript, and digital images.
The most widely known web archive service is the Wayback Machine, run by Internet Archive. [citation needed] The growing portion of human culture created and recorded on the web makes it inevitable that more and more libraries and archives will have to face the challenges of web archiving. [2]
The Internet Archive Scholar is a scholarly search engine created by the Internet Archive in 2020. As of February 2024, it contained over 35 million research articles with full text access. The materials available come from three different forms: content identified by the Wayback Machine, by digitized print material and sources such as uploads ...
I frequently access the Internet Archive's library or Wayback Machine while editing at Wikipedia (from the UK), but since swapping over to Three broadband it looks like these sites are blocked by parental filters (which are turned on by default). At the moment, I still have BT broadband and that works just fine, as does a VPN.
If the user does not have a Wayback Machine account or is logged out, clicking this link will show the current version of the requested web page and start the process that will attempt to archive the page. If the user has a Wayback Machine account and is logged in, clicking this link will instead bring up the form at web.archive.org /save, with ...