As the Wayback Machine nears 1 trillion archived web pages this October, we're still looking for standout sites to feature.
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With Kagi, you can easily view a webpage's history through the Wayback Machine by opening any result in Web Archive via our quick actions menu:
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The Internet Archive which hosts the Wayback Machine even have their own Mastodon instance, check it out!
https://mastodon.archive.org/explore
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#waybackmachine #archive #internet #hackdom #scarce #knowledge
Found an excellent IBM.com page with explanation of difference between directories and file systems. I noticed archive.org has single snapshot of it. When I tried to save another, I got I had reached the quota limit... 40K a day
Is symptom of growing hackdom of the networked criminals that will ensure most of the population stay ignorant. Is easier to control poor, hungry, and ignorant people. Even if they are Americans
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Favorite page: the former #LeCrestois website, back in 2004. There wasn't much content, but it was very animated! 
https://web.archive.org/web/20041021181143/http://www.le-crestois.fr/
Now: the same web address, with all the content added since the pandemic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250711113842/https://le-crestois.fr/
web.archive.orgLe Crestois
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#WaybackMachine #WebHistory #internetarchive
First time I used FTP to send our project in Sweden to the schematic capture company Mentor Graphics.
Took 6h, but they managed to find an extremely unusual bug that caused crashed when zooming into a a schematic with a symbol containing a half circle on odd days.
I became the talk of the company for using internet for the first time to solve a complex problem and received a leather jacket from Sun Microsystem as present.
As the Wayback Machine approaches 1 trillion archived web pages this October, we want your help picking memorable ones to highlight.
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I was in my late teens and early 20s when Disney was doing this... It confused me because of all the redirecting and I actually remember thinking that it could be dangerous... I wondered who go.com was and why I ended up there. Had no inkling that domain redirection (misdirection?) would become the privacy and security nightmare it is today.
Summer online in the late 90s? Disney hoped you’d start at Go․com.
It launched in 1998 as a bold web portal strategy to unify Disney’s online presence—ESPN, ABC, Disney—all under one digital roof. But starting in 2001, it was gradually stripped of services & branding. Now it's just directs to a page about the Disney Company.
Check out its short life with the #WaybackMachine
https://web.archive.org/web/20011116082714/http://go.com/
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This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.
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#WaybackMachine to Hit ‘Once-in-a-Generation Milestone’ this October: One Trillion Web Pages Archived - https://blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/wayback-machine-to-hit-once-in-a-generation-milestone-this-october-one-trillion-web-pages-archived/ an amazing resource that must be treasured...
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive
Remember to Archive all your #NoKings Day websites for the Future !
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #wayback_machine #GovWayback
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Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 with a simple URL change…
#GovWayback #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #wayback_machine
govwayback.comGovWaybackAccess historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 via the Wayback Machine
in the cafe, @eladnarra is running a #fundraiser for the @internetarchive that will culminate into a #zine!
this is such a cool project that’s only open for submissions for a couple more days—the deadline is JUNE 15!
if you want to help support the #internetarchive, join in this collective action! in times like these, having a living archive preserving information is so important. 
archivezine.orgSupport the Internet Archive! | The Internet Archive Fundraiser ZineDonate $5 or more to the Internet Archive and contribute to a zine!
a little tool I built to fight linkrot and save our sources from the memory hole → https://sij.law/deepciter
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So here’s a really useful tip if you’re using archive.org to look up a site and it redirects to some other site because that’s what they saw at a later crawl…
Prefix your search (in the URL bar) with:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/
So, for example, if you search for https://www.blendwebmix.com/ on archive.org, you’ll get a redirect to a different site.
But if you enter the following URL in your browser:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.blendwebmix.com/
You’ll get the calendar view with all the crawls of the URL.
Thanks to iarchivist for the tip (https://archive.org/post/1012493/wayback-how-to-deal-with-redirects).
(I’m going through and fixing all the links in a decade of talks for Laura and myself on the Kitten version of the Small Technology Foundation site and most of the conference sites are either gone or don’t have archives so the Internet Archive is coming through again bigtime.)
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@wikimediaDE was mich etwas unruhig macht: Dass viele Quellenangaben zu anderen Seiten verloren gehen und nach und nach durch Links in die #WayBackMachine von @internetarchive ersetzt werden. Wäre es vielleicht sinnvoll, wenn Wikimedia selbst solche caching, archiving server betreiben würde, um unabhängig und redundant/ausfallsicher zu bleiben?
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Update. "ERICA is a rescue catalog which preserves over 500,000 Open Access publications originally hosted by the US Department of Education in the #ERIC research repository. ERIC was defunded on the 23 April 2025 and the maintenance contract is set to expire soon, meaning that ERIC is likely to shut down. The PDFs were rescued using the Internet Archive's #WaybackMachine by a volunteer of the #DataRescueProject. When you click on one of the publication ID links, you will be redirected to the archived PDF in the the Wayback Machine. Feel free to host your own copy of ERICA by simply cloning this source code repo, which also includes the metadata for the catalog."
https://erica.datarescueproject.org/
erica.datarescueproject.orgERICA (ERIC Archive)
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@JMarkOckerbloom @nyhan @datarescueproject.org
Good question. I don't know the answer. But if you could identify one of those rights-restricted docs, you could look for it in this #WaybackMachine collection.
https://web.archive.org/collection-search/files.eric.ed.gov/iskme
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