Exploring Web Archives

What is your favorite website? How often does the content change? How often do you encounter broken links?

Paste a link into the Wayback Machine to explore it’s history.

screen shot of Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon showing Mr Peabody and Sherman entering the WABAC time machine — Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Do you have a broken link? Try looking it up in the Internet Archive!

National Web Archives

Library of Congress: "Web content changes all the time. If we don't save that content before it disappears, a major part of our cultural history will be lost."

Library of Congress
US National Archives
UK National Web Archives
Australian Web Archive (in TROVE) (successor of one of the earliest national web archives, PANDORA)
Arquivo.pt (Portuguese web archive with unique search interface designed for research)
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) (organization supporting collaborative efforts to improve standards, tools, and best practices for web archiving. See training materials)
Internet Archive Scholar (full text search of research articles captured in Internet Archive)

What is a web archive? (from UK Web Archive)