wayback machine official topic

Agentpieface

http://archive.org/web/web.php

i've just been on the wayback machine looking through the old 1.4
and god i miss it

anyway the wayback machine is a digital time capsule thing made by the internet archive
it allows you to go back in time in pretty much any website on the internet to like 2005

its pretty awesome
discuss it here

All4one

I've started using that a lot very recently actually. I often use it to read vintage Rolling Stone album reviews from the 60's and 70's, which they've deleted from the Rolling Stone website for some reason.

jji7skyline

All4one wrote:
I've started using that a lot very recently actually. I often use it to read vintage Rolling Stone album reviews from the 60's and 70's, which they've deleted from the Rolling Stone website for some reason.

This is why they say that once you post something on the web, it's impossible to remove

All4one

jji7skyline wrote:
All4one wrote:
I've started using that a lot very recently actually. I often use it to read vintage Rolling Stone album reviews from the 60's and 70's, which they've deleted from the Rolling Stone website for some reason.
This is why they say that once you post something on the web, it's impossible to remove

Yep.

Agentpieface

jji7skyline wrote:
All4one wrote:
I've started using that a lot very recently actually. I often use it to read vintage Rolling Stone album reviews from the 60's and 70's, which they've deleted from the Rolling Stone website for some reason.
This is why they say that once you post something on the web, it's impossible to remove

although the majority of sub-pages on popular websites especially singular posts probably aren't viewable on the wayback machine

scimonster

Agentpieface wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
All4one wrote:
I've started using that a lot very recently actually. I often use it to read vintage Rolling Stone album reviews from the 60's and 70's, which they've deleted from the Rolling Stone website for some reason.
This is why they say that once you post something on the web, it's impossible to remove
although the majority of sub-pages on popular websites especially singular posts probably aren't viewable on the wayback machine

Yeah. Supposedly they crawl the site, but they don't do it very well.

LeDerpy123

The Apple website has changed a lot since the beginning of time.

Epicness123

I use archive for looking back at sites that have changed

Agentpieface

Epicness123 wrote:
I use archive for looking back at sites that have changed

yep, as do I

SuperJedi224

Thank you for reminding me that this site exists. Really helpful.

scimonster

Prehistoric Google. :O

I was using it earlier to recover a link that was deleted from a site.

trinary

It's pretty useful for finding information on people, especially if they've deleted it.

Agentpieface

scimonster wrote:
Prehistoric Google. :O

I was using it earlier to recover a link that was deleted from a site.

1998, wow
although it actually hasn't changed that much in 14 years, i would expect more differences for over a decade lol

DerAxeEffekt

I tried looking at GKNOVA6 with the wayback machine, didn't work ;(

Flamekebab

I've been using it a lot lately as part of a project of mine. Geocities sites can sometimes be found on there and they were the medium of choice for amateur wargaming content at the turn of the century.

Agentpieface

bump

FanaticReturns

The way back machine services are offline!

Tailsic111

surprisingly it can actually run the Scratch 3.0 Beta perfectly
( link if you want to try it out: https://web.archive.org/web/20181228164640/https://beta.scratch.mit.edu/ )

Last edited by Tailsic111 (Nov. 28, 2021 18:41:42)

LionManStudios

don't ignore the NSFW warning your first time using it, don't
I thought it was just there for all the webpages and I learned my lesson the hard way, closed the tab in less than a second

Last edited by LionManStudios (Nov. 28, 2021 19:07:58)

starhero5697

My profile page was archived once.

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