Category Archives: Wayback Machine

Fixing Broken Links on the Internet

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Alexis Rossi

Today the Internet Archive announces a new initiative to fix broken links across the Internet. ?We have 360 billion archived URLs, and now we want you to help us bring those pages back out onto the web to heal broken … Continue reading →

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Blacked Out Government Websites Available Through Wayback Machine

Posted on October 2, 2013 by brewster

  (from the Internet Archive’s Archive-it group: Announcing the first ever Archive-It US Government Shutdown Notice?Awards!? ) Congress has caused the U.S. federal government to shut down and important websites have gone dark.? Fortunately, we have the Wayback Machine to … Continue reading →

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80 terabytes of archived web crawl data available for research

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Alexis Rossi

Internet Archive crawls and saves web pages and makes them available for viewing through the Wayback Machine because we believe in the importance of archiving digital artifacts for future generations to learn from.? In the process, of course, we accumulate … Continue reading →

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HTTP Archive joins with Internet Archive

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Alexis Rossi

It was announced today that HTTP Archive has become part of Internet Archive. The Internet Archive provides an archive of web site content through the Wayback Machine, but we do not capture data about the performance of web sites.? Steve … Continue reading →

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Want to discuss the Wayback Machine or Internet Archive’s web archive?

Posted on July 8, 2010 by internetarchive

Over on the web group’s blog is a post inviting input on the Wayback Machine and Internet Archive’s web archive. You can post comments and suggestions. There’s also some useful links. Check it out at http://iawebarchiving.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/wayback-machine-web-archiving-open-thread-july-2010/ -Jeff Kaplan

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New Firefox Add-on for searching the Wayback Machine

Posted on June 8, 2010 by internetarchive

Fellow time travelers, We have a new Firefox add-on that allows you to search the Wayback Machine from your browser. You can get it at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/162148/. For those who have yet to travel back in time, the Internet Archive Wayback … Continue reading →

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GeoCities, Preserved!

Posted on August 25, 2009 by internetarchive

There’s a chance that in the 1990s, you were more familiar with neighborhoods on GeoCities than with the neighborhoods in your own town. As one of the most popular and oldest (nearly 15 years running) sites for self expression on … Continue reading →

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Wayback Machine comes to life in new home

Posted on April 24, 2009 by internetarchive

The Wayback Machine is a 150 billion page web archive with a front end to serve it through the archive.org website. Today the new machine came to life, so if you using the service, you are using a 20′ by … Continue reading →

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Wayback Machine has 85 Billion Archived Webpages

Posted on December 5, 2006 by internetarchive

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine now has 85,898,456,616 archived web objects in it, and is available, as always, to the public for free. A snapshot of the World Wide Web is taken every 2 months and donated to the Internet … Continue reading →

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