We see many Tweets asking who is archiving the Web, and Social Media history, of the Trump administration, News stories and these times in general.
Rest assured the ’s Wayback Machine is!
In fact we have been archiving more than 1 billion URLs for months.
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Have you ever wondered what people actually do at the ?
Come learn and celebrate, with our staff and community, at our annual open-house events:
- Richmond, CA this Wed. eve (physical archive)
- San Francisco, this Thur. eve (HQ)
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Team Wayback Machine welcomes help from people who might help us improve our services.
We are interested those with JavaScript, HTML, CSS experience as well Python, UX/UI skills.
Researchers, writers and people with AI chops are also welcomed.
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Use the 's Wayback Machine's Changes feature to see side-by-side evidence of how the CDC removed guidance to doctors, about drug favored by Trump, from their Web site:
web.archive.org/web/diff/20200
The 's Wayback Machine's "Changes" feature showing how a United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Emergency, Web page, was changed to re-define the Strategic National Stockpile: web.archive.org/web/diff/20200
Web pages, news articles, government guidelines, etc. are often edited, without a change in their associated Web address (URL).
Here is a example of such an edit, documented and highlighted with the Wayback Machine's “Changes” feature:
web.archive.org/web/diff/20200
Two columns, written by Mike Pence, make a moral case for removing a president from office, are no longer available via the live web but are available via the Wayback Machine
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and referenced in this article
cnn.com/2018/08/06/pol
The January 6th Committee has released 170 transcripts, a Final Report and a Summary Report.
Those files have been archived with the and also uploaded to Archive.org here: archive.org/details/jan-6t
Thank you for your support: archive.org/donate/
Journalists often use the Wayback Machine to find archives of deleted Web pages & sites. 's demonstrates the value of that practice below
Please don't hesitate to DM us, if you would like advice about how to use the Wayback Machine in your reporting
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NEW: GOP candidate Marjorie Greene wrote blog posts in 2017 and 2018 speculating that the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to one counter-protester's death was an "inside job" and promoted claims that Pizzagate is real.” cnn.com/2020/08/25/pol
Archives of the Web make stories like this piece by possible.
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Why we built the
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Preserving (since 1996) & Presenting (since 2001) an archived Web
Two versions of a gop.com Webpage (2020 & today)
History, it is a terrible thing to erase
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New feature!
When logged into archive.org select the "Please email me the results” option of web.archive.org/save (Save Page Now)
Within a few minutes you will get an email report of archived URLs, which may include some "First Archive" badges!
Use of the 's Wayback Machine's "Changes" feature: x.com/jwiechers/stat to show how a blog post had been edited.
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⬢ Jens Wiëchers ⬡
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Replying to @jwiechers
I was just told about a wonderful feature of @waybackmachine by @MarkGraham: Changes.
You can see exactly what was changed between April and May here:
web.archive.org/web/diff/20200
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The 's Wayback Machine has arrived!
Eagle-eyed noticed a slightly modified section of Wayback Machine source code (“wayback” changed to “codegener”) on the screen in Season 4, Episode 6 “The Dive” (scene starting at 53:27) of
The 's Wayback Machine &
have partnered to help make the Web more reliable
Cloudflare’s "Always Online” service will help populate the Wayback Machine, and direct people to those archives if origin servers are not available
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With today's update (V1.4.95), Brave's desktop Browser now detects error code 404, "Page Not Found" (and 14 other error conditions) and offers one click playback of archived pages from the Wayback Machine. It is a Brave new world! blog.archive.org/2020/02/25/bra
Today, like everyday, the ’s is preserving thousands of URLs per second
We are helping to ensure future generations have the opportunity to learn from history
You can help too...
If you see something, save something
web.archive.org/save
Show moreUsing the 's 's "Changes" feature to compare versions of the same web page from two different times.
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Preserving Change Matters!
Thank you for your support: archive.org/donate/
FINAL REPORT Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
Dec 22th, 2022
845 Pages
376,794 Words
4,286 Citations
1,834 Links (87 of which are URLs)
Archived at
archive.org/details/report
#January6thReport
Show moreYou can now search Scholarly Materials preserved in the Internet Archive.
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- advancing the mission of "Universal Access to All Knowledge", one link at a time.
The 's has found and fixed 16,153,643 broken links from 269 Wikipedia language editions.
That represents a LOT of times people didn’t get the dreaded 404, "Page Not Found" message.
Your support helped make this possible: archive.org/donate/
Part of our infrastructure just lost power (planned outage by PG&E). As such some Wayback Machine services will be unstable (if available at all) for the next couple of hours (estimate). Time to take a walk or read a book! Will share the "all clear" when things have stabilized.
The 's was used by ' to find, and share, several deleted blog posts, written by Congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, about QAnon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon) conspiracy theories.
The 's Wayback Machine was used by 's to document and report how Trump's recently appointed deputy White House liaison at the , has a history of making public anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ comments: cnn.com/2020/06/29/pol
The ’s is honored to be helping to ensure massive archives of Open Source material is available for future generations, by working with to back it up, and bury it in a remote location: github.blog/2020-07-16-git
Hello World!
Applying machine transcription and translation to produce English closed captioning of Russian TV
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Thank you for your partnership with the 's TV News Archive.
You are helping to make our service more useful.
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After a long outage and recovery, the and the are back up and running!
Thank you all for your patience and understanding.
Archives from the Wayback Machine help document that the archive of the White House’s newsletter, 1600 Daily, quietly disappeared from WhiteHouse.gov late last year, according to the latest findings from the Sunlight Foundation’s Web Integrity Project
Unlike , the public Web does not have a native version control system.
To help compensate for this fundamental design flaw the ’s Wayback Machine can compare archives of Web pages, and highlight differences between them.
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Melania Trump’s Website, Biography Removed From Web: huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania- (244 captures here: web.archive.org/web/*/http://m)
Working to preserve our digital history, and recognizing issues around providing access to false and misleading information coming from different sources, the ’s adds context banners to some archived Web pages:
blog.archive.org/2020/10/30/fac
The is excited about using 's new "Crawler Hints" service.
We expect it will help us do a better job of archiving more of the public Web.
Thank you Cloudflare for your innovative efforts to help make the Web more reliable.
We know how much people love the #WaybackMachine, so to celebrate our 25 year anniversary we've made you a new tool.
Check out the #WayforwardMachine at wayforward.archive.org