This introduction to using the Wayback Machine includes information about searching by URL or keyword, understanding provenance, and saving your own pages, along with other features.
Wayback Machine Browser Extensions & add ons:
Resources
- Help Center - Wayback Machine
- Fact Checks and Context for Wayback Machine Pages (2020)
- The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now is New and Improved (2019)
- Wayback Machine Playback… now with Timestamps! (2017)
- If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine (2017)
- FAQs for some new features available in the Beta Wayback Machine (2016)
Related Reading
- More than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued (2018)
- Making the Web More Reliable — 20 Years and Counting (2016)
- Can the Internet Be Archived? (The New Yorker, 2015)
Presenter Bio
Alexis Rossi manages the digital collections of the Internet Archive. From 2006-2008, Rossi founded and launched OpenLibrary.org, as well as working on the Open Content Alliance. From 2009-2015 Rossi managed mass web crawling projects and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Some of her current projects include 78rpm digitization, radio, television and podcast archiving, and large scale metadata improvement and linking. You can learn more about her at alexisrossi.com.
Reviews
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kovarski
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March 10, 2021
Subject: Excellent for anyone wanting to archive websites as DIY
Subject: Excellent for anyone wanting to archive websites as DIY
I was very impressed with Archive-It but the subscription cost was prohibitive for me. This clear and concise introduction provided the information I needed to be able to archive websites on my own at no cost. Initially I thought there would be technical barriers but this video shows how simple it can be. Thank you very much!
Reviewer:
jordan84
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February 15, 2021
Subject: Super helpful!
Subject: Super helpful!
Thanks for adding this introductory video on the WM! As someone who has been using this resource for about a year now, this was extremely helpful in describing all the various features of the WM. I felt that something like this was missing and it's very useful in helping to navigate how the WM functions. Thank you!
