The Wayback Machine

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The Wayback Machine is a service of the Internet Archive @internetarchive We are sharing articles that reference the Wayback Machine or the Internet Archive.

San Francisco, CA

web.archive.org

Joined June 2016

The Wayback Machine
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Aug 17
Dealing with a power outage. Apologies for the disruption in service.
The Wayback Machine
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Dec 24, 2025
In 2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the @internetarchive kept the receipts. From investigations by @NewYorker and @nytimes to video features from the @BBC and @CNN, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s
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Nov 28, 2025
Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited. Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison: web.archive.org/web/diff/20251… The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.
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Nov 20, 2025
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed. We apologize and are working on it. More news as it happens.
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Nov 17, 2025
From @CNN "Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved" archive.org/details/CNNW_2…