Wayback Machine
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Mozilla Firefox
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Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Reddit
Reddit to block Wayback Machine from indexing its content over AI data scraping concernsReddit will restrict most of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from indexing its content, citi...
- POX published news article about Internet Archive
The Internet Archive restores Save Page Now feature after DDoS cyberattack disruptionThe Internet Archive has announced the restoration of its Save Page Now feature, following a cybera...
- POX published news article about Internet Archive
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine suffered data breach, 31 million user accounts exposedThe Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has experienced a significant data breach, resulting in the ...
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Wayback Machine is awesome for outages or links that doesn't work anymore! I love it!
It's known that they censor a lot of content
I really want the Wayback Machine to be a great working archive of internet content. But it's utterly slow, the API is more broken than it's working, robots.txt is followed, it is known to be censored, and the list goes on. Sad that the people behind the Internet Archive seem to focus more on pirating books and pissing of the entire publishing industry, than building a reliable, modern web archive.
One of the greatest internet inventions. Go back in past and feel some nostalgia seeing good old websites again!
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.
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.