Wayback Machine: 5 Alternatives To Try via @sejournal, @BennyJamminS
Much of the web is ephemeral.
Web pages exist until they don’t. The content on them exists until it’s updated – and then it’s gone.
Unless you go digging in an archive.
Archiving the web is important for cultural and anthropological research. It’s also helpful for business reasons, like competitive analysis. It can even help document or monitor political processes.
Your particular reason for seeking archived content might determine which service works best.
The Wayback Machine is the most commonly known archive.
Screenshot, https://archive.org/web/, January 2023.
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization, and the Wayback Machine is the web version of its archive, containing an absolutely massive amount of data.