Many enthusiastic web surfers know that the venerable Internet Archive is the home of the Wayback Machine, a tool that allows you to go back in time with a particular website to see what previous versions looked like. What we hadn't noticed until today is that the Wayback Machine has a bookmarklet you can use when viewing any site to quickly check if there are archived versions of it. The 'marklet can be had farther down on the Wayback Machine site, and the convenience it adds should prove useful to surfers who are curious about the history of a particular site.Internet Archive has a Wayback bookmarklet
Many enthusiastic web surfers know that the venerable Internet Archive is the home of the Wayback Machine, a tool that allows you to go back in time with a particular website to see what previous versions looked like. What we hadn't noticed until today is that the Wayback Machine has a bookmarklet you can use when viewing any site to quickly check if there are archived versions of it. The 'marklet can be had farther down on the Wayback Machine site, and the convenience it adds should prove useful to surfers who are curious about the history of a particular site.
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5-25-2007 @ 12:17PM
Andrea said...
It's really useful with now-closed sites too!
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5-27-2007 @ 1:14AM
hazard said...
came in very handy a while back when I wanted a programming component from a company [site] that had disappeared .. unfortunately it didn't cache the site's forum
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