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The Best Ways To View Archived Versions Of Web Pages


[ Originally published on September 8th, 2015 ]

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Web pages change quite often. What was there yesterday, may not necessarily be there today. So what do you do when you want to see old versions of web pages? You look at their archives!

Web crawlers are constantly scouring the internet, saving and indexing and you can easily search this indexed content. Here are some free websites that you can use to do this:

WayBack Machine: Powered by the Internet Archive, this site allows you to search for and view old versions of web pages. Search using URLs and narrow the results by specific date. This one is by far the best of the lot, with over 400 billion web pages archived.

========Archive-It: Powered by the Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine, this site allows you to search for and view old versions of web pages. Unlike the WayBack Machine, it also allows you to search using key words, not just URLs.

Archive: Allows you to save current versions of web pages, as well as search for and view old versions of web pages. Search using URLs.

WebCite: Allows you to search for and view old versions of web pages. Search using URLs, a specific date and/or a Snapshot ID.

Time Travel / What Did It Look Like?: Powered by MementoWeb, these sites [both part of the same network] allow you to search for and view old versions of web pages. Search using URLs and specific dates.

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~ Merit Freeman
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