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We see many Tweets asking who is archiving the Web, and Social Media history, of the Trump administration, News stories and these times in general.
Rest assured the
@internetarchive
’s Wayback Machine is!
In fact we have been archiving more than 1 billion URLs for months.
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Have you ever wondered what people actually do at the
@internetarchive
?
Come learn and celebrate, with our staff and community, at our annual open-house events:
- Richmond, CA this Wed. eve (physical archive)
- San Francisco, this Thur. eve (HQ)
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Use the
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine's Changes feature to see side-by-side evidence of how the CDC removed guidance to doctors, about drug favored by Trump, from their Web site:
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The
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine's "Changes" feature showing how a United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Emergency, Web page, was changed to re-define the Strategic National Stockpile:
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Web pages, news articles, government guidelines, etc. are often edited, without a change in their associated Web address (URL).
Here is a example of such an edit, documented and highlighted with the
@internetarchive
Wayback Machine's “Changes” feature:
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Two columns, written by Mike Pence, make a moral case for removing a president from office, are no longer available via the live web but are available via the Wayback Machine
and referenced in this article
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The January 6th Committee has released 170 transcripts, a Final Report and a Summary Report.
Those files have been archived with the
@waybackmachine
and also uploaded to here:
Thank you for your support:
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Journalists often use the Wayback Machine to find archives of deleted Web pages & sites.
@CNN
's
@KFILE
demonstrates the value of that practice below
Please don't hesitate to DM us, if you would like advice about how to use the Wayback Machine in your reporting
@internetarchive
NEW: GOP candidate Marjorie Greene wrote blog posts in 2017 and 2018 speculating that the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to one counter-protester's death was an "inside job" and promoted claims that Pizzagate is real.”
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Archives of the Web make stories like this
@nytimes
piece by
@ShaneGoldmacher
possible.
#empoweringlibraries
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As reported by
@hugolowell
Why we built the
@waybackmachine
Preserving (since 1996) & Presenting (since 2001) an archived Web
Two versions of a Webpage (2020 & today)
History, it is a terrible thing to erase
@internetarchive
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New
@waybackmachine
feature!
When logged into select the "Please email me the results” option of (Save Page Now)
Within a few minutes you will get an email report of archived URLs, which may include some "First Archive" badges!
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Use of the
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine's "Changes" feature: to show how a blog post had been edited.
I was just told about a wonderful feature of
@waybackmachine
by
@MarkGraham
: Changes.
You can see exactly what was changed between April and May here:
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The
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine has arrived!
Eagle-eyed
@tropix126
noticed a slightly modified section of Wayback Machine source code (“wayback” changed to “codegener”) on the screen in Season 4, Episode 6 “The Dive” (scene starting at 53:27) of
@Stranger_Things
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The
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine &
@Cloudflare
have partnered to help make the Web more reliable
Cloudflare’s "Always Online” service will help populate the Wayback Machine, and direct people to those archives if origin servers are not available
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With today's update (V1.4.95), Brave's desktop Browser now detects error code 404, "Page Not Found" (and 14 other error conditions) and offers one click playback of archived pages from the Wayback Machine. It is a Brave new world!
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Using the
@internetarchive
's
@waybackmachine
's "Changes" feature to compare versions of the same web page from two different times.
Preserving Change Matters!
Thank you for your support:
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Today, like everyday, the
@internetarchive
’s
@waybackmachine
is preserving thousands of URLs per second
We are helping to ensure future generations have the opportunity to learn from history
You can help too...
If you see something, save something
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FINAL REPORT Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
Dec 22th, 2022
845 Pages
376,794 Words
4,286 Citations
1,834 Links (87 of which are
@waybackmachine
URLs)
Archived at
@internetarchive
#January6thReport
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You can now search Scholarly Materials preserved in the Internet Archive.
@internetarchive
- advancing the mission of "Universal Access to All Knowledge", one link at a time.
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The
@internetarchive
's
@waybackmachine
has found and fixed 16,153,643 broken links from 269 Wikipedia language editions.
That represents a LOT of times people didn’t get the dreaded 404, "Page Not Found" message.
Your support helped make this possible:
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Part of our infrastructure just lost power (planned outage by PG&E). As such some Wayback Machine services will be unstable (if available at all) for the next couple of hours (estimate). Time to take a walk or read a book! Will share the "all clear" when things have stabilized.
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The
@internetarchive
's
@waybackmachine
was used by
@NBCNews
'
@BrandyZadrozny
to find, and share, several deleted blog posts, written by Congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, about QAnon () conspiracy theories.
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The
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine was used by
@CNN
's
@KFILE
to document and report how Trump's recently appointed deputy White House liaison at the
@USAID
, has a history of making public anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ comments:
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The
@internetarchive
’s
@waybackmachine
is honored to be helping to ensure massive archives of Open Source material is available for future generations, by working with
@github
to back it up, and bury it in a remote location:
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Hello World!
Applying machine transcription and translation to produce English closed captioning of Russian TV
Thank you
@kalevleetaru
for your partnership with the
@internetarchive
's TV News Archive.
You are helping to make our service more useful.
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After a long outage and recovery, the
@internetarchive
and the
@waybackmachine
are back up and running!
Thank you all for your patience and understanding.
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Archives from the Wayback Machine help document that the archive of the White House’s newsletter, 1600 Daily, quietly disappeared from late last year, according to the latest findings from the Sunlight Foundation’s Web Integrity Project
@SunWebIntegrity
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Unlike
@Wikipedia
, the public Web does not have a native version control system.
To help compensate for this fundamental design flaw the
@internetarchive
’s Wayback Machine can compare archives of Web pages, and highlight differences between them.
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⏳We know how much people love the
#WaybackMachine
, so to celebrate our 25 year anniversary we've made you a new tool.
👉Check out the
#WayforwardMachine
at
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Last year the Internet Archive helped produce an .epub of the Mueller report, with 733 links added.
See:
If you, or anyone you know, would like to volunteer to help us continue this project (Mueller report and other key documents) please DM us here.
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Working to preserve our digital history, and recognizing issues around providing access to false and misleading information coming from different sources, the
@internetarchive
’s
@waybackmachine
adds context banners to some archived Web pages:
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The
@internetarchive
is excited about using
@Cloudflare
's new "Crawler Hints" service.
We expect it will help us do a better job of archiving more of the public Web.
Thank you Cloudflare for your innovative efforts to help make the Web more reliable.
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"What is the Wayback?" Right! go
@internetarchive
(watch the clip from last night's jeopardy.) I think this means we are a household name!
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@EvoMRI
@internetarchive
Big storm in SF Bay Area. Many power outages. One of our data centers effected.
No data has been lost. Power will come back at some point and so will we! :-)
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And, in collaboration with the
@librarycongress
, the
@USNatArchives
and others, we are archiving thousands of Federal Government Web sites before and during the presidential election.
We will start another crawl of those sites after the inauguration on January 20th, 2021.
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Curious about what the
@internetarchive
has to offer?
Hint: It is much more than the
@waybackmachine
Want to know how you might help this modern day "Library of Alexandria"?
Suggestion: Explore & use the service
@textfiles
has written this handy guide:
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Thank you to everyone who has supported the Internet Archive - and all libraries - during this lawsuit. The judge will hear oral argument on Monday. Make your voice heard:
@fightfortheftr
#EmpoweringLibraries
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servers (including the Wayback Machine) are back online and stable.
Huge thanks to all those who worked throughout their Saturday to bring backup hardware online.
Suffice to say it was not as easy as turning a server on and off :-)
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The
@internetarchive
is a Library
"Crazy we even have to say this, but publishers in their lawsuit have insisted that the Internet Archive isn't a real library. It absolutely is."
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"Inside Wayback Machine, the internet’s time capsule" from
@Hustle_Says
A nice introduction to some of the work of the Internet Archive, including the Wayback Machine.
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The
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine "Changes" feature:
can help tell this story by
@JosephWulfsohn
See:
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Then they tell us it was a mistake.
The
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine shows us a before and after:
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Power for an
@internetarchive
datacenter has been off, and is not due to come back on till 5pm Pacific Time today
As such the
@waybackmachine
is down
Very sorry about this.
"PG&E is assessing the cause at the outage location.
Estimated restoration September 19 | 5:00 PM PDT"
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Part of the
@internetarchive
's core infrastructure suffered some breakdowns today.
Engineers are in the process of configuring a backup unit.
We expect that work to be done soon, and all services, including the
@waybackmachine
, will be fully restored.
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Big storm in SF Bay Area. Many power outages.
Have seen power at one of our
@internetarchive
data centers go down, then back up, then down again.
No idea when it will stabilize.
But, no data has been lost and we are "on it".
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The Wayback Machine is coming back up... please be gentle with it while it picks up speed!
Thousands of reads and writes/second here we come!
@internetarchive
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Want to help
@internetarchive
add more clickable citations, linking to digital books & others resources from ?
Our "Turn All References Blue" project is looking for volunteers. Experience editing Wikipedia articles and coding is a plus
Please DM us here.
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Thank you Virginia Heffernan
@page88
for your thoughtful and funny article about the Wayback Machine “Things Break and Decay on the Internet—That's a Good Thing” we love our Rocky and Bullwinkle (and Mr. Peabody and Sherman) kitsch :-)
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Same URL, two different headlines, same published time/date, archived at two different times.
(Wayback Machine times are UTC)
The Wayback Machine's Save Page Now feature () is your friend.
"If you see something save something"
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In article from
Number of Russian Federation personnel killed
According to Ukraine 14,000
According to Russia 9,861
Numbers removed in later version
Archived version of original article from
@internetarchive
’s
@waybackmachine
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Over the years we have learned about all sorts of interesting applications of the Wayback Machine, as we work to help make the Web more useful and reliable.
This one is right up there on the "hmmm..." scale.
Glad we could be of service
@BarclaysUK
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Journalist used the Wayback Machine to establish that a company had removed information, from their website, about a previously discussed product launch.
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The Wayback Machine is mostly back up after a power related outage. Thank you for your patience.
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It is election season in the United States, which means now is the time to build the “seed lists” for a 2020-2021 "End of Term" Web Archive of US Government Web sites.
You can help by nominating URLs here:
And, please spread the word!
@eotarchive
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Archives from the Wayback Machine referenced in this CBS News story about how the White House updated an online transcript of recent Trump-Putin press conference:
@kathrynw5
@internetarchive
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We are glad the
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine was of service to you John (
@anterotesis
)
And thank you sharing your experiences with others, so they might benefit from what you learned.
Readers: What is YOUR Wayback Machine story?
5 vols of British documents on slavery, gone from Georgia library website, retrieved from
@waybackmachine
, uploaded to
@internetarchive
#openaccess
#history
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The Fact Checking site
@leadstories
using the
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine to provide evidence that Macaulay Culkin Did NOT Say Satanic Hollywood Elites Murder Children During Rituals
Glad we could help clear up that question.
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As reported by
@cnn
's
@KFILE
, and using the
@internetarchive
's
@waybackmachine
, Amy Coney Barrett did not disclose participation in a panel on religion in the public square, a speech to a student religious society, and a talk with an anti-abortion group.
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The
@SunFoundation
reports that in the final minutes of the Obama administration
@ICEgov
removed nearly 200 speeches & testimonies, delivered by agency leadership, from its website. Gratefully, they were preserved by the
@internetarchive
’s Wayback Machine:
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Just when we thought it was safe...
PG&E (our power company) is reporting a power outage at one of our data centers.
As such, the
@internetarchive
and our various services, e.g.
@waybackmachine
and
@openlibrary
are down right now.
Will let you know when we are back!
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📢ATTENTION: PG&E our local power company is implementing a planned power outage today near one of our main data centers. Please expect some disruptions in service. Thank you for your patience.
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.
@OpenSecretsDC
, a nonprofit research group that tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy, used the Wayback Machine’s archive of a Facebook page to help document the management of the Illinois Policy Institute.
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Information about this project can be found here:
You can nominate URLs for us to archive here:
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Archives from the
@waybackmachine
help document fake military recruitment websites, seized by the FTC for selling personal information to for-profit schools:
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Happy Birthday to us!
What would you like to see from/in the Wayback Machine for our 20th next year?
Happy 19th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.
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Live blogging of oral arguments in Hachette v. Internet Archive available now/here:
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.
@maddow
called out
@internetarchive
last night in reference to this story:
…
You can watch a clip of Rachel speaking about the story here:
…
If you see something, save something, to the
@waybackmachine
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First the CDC tells us COVID-19 can be transmitted via "...small particles, such as those in aerosols,..."
The
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine shows us a before and after:
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Use of the
@internetarchive
's Wayback Machine, by
@mrgreene1977
of
@thenextweb
, to help inform us about the background of Kayleigh McEnany, the incoming Press Secretary of the United States:
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The
@internetarchive
, home of
@waybackmachine
just launched our annual fundraising campaign
Please visit & support our work with a donation & help spread the word by liking and re-Tweeting this message
If you see something save something!
#TruthMatters
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Bop Records, in Seattle, was going out of business and trying to sell their entire 500,000 item inventory. So the
@internetarchive
bought it… sight unseen:
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White House completely scrubbed official website of Executive Order creating Kris Kobach’s
#StopVoterFraud
commission
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/white-house-completely-scrubbed-official-website-executive-order-creating-kris-kobachs-stopvoterfraud-commission/
@internetarchive
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Thank YOU
@PolitiFact
We love helping journalists and researchers
"There’s the Wayback Machine, a warehouse of billions of web pages saved, searchable and available anytime you need to know what someone said, in contrast to what they say they said."
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Team Wayback Machine is looking for volunteer iOS/Android developers to help us with a special project.
If you ever thought you wanted to help advance the mission of the Internet Archive, & have experience with iOS/Android app development, this might be our lucky day!
Pls DM us
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In recent weeks, greater use has meant we need greater bandwidth. That = buying & installing more equipment.
Thanks to your support (and the work of our dedicated team) we have now increased outbound capacity by 30%. Kudos & 🙌thanks for your support!
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On Aug 24th the CDC updated a Web page about COVID testing guidelines, noting a "focus on testing considerations"
This article: includes a link to a
@waybackmachine
playback URL highlighting the extensive changes in blue & yellow.
@internetarchive
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The Wayback Machine is back!
Please resume your use of to help preserve our times.
@internetarchive
Thank you for your support.
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Power that had gone out, in one of our data centers, is back on and we are now working to restore all services.
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Power has been restored.
Services are coming back up.
There is peace in the valley.
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274 PDF files from the website of "The United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol"
2 Letters
2 Reports (Summary and Final)
270 Transcripts of testimony
Safely preserved by the
@internetarchive
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The
@internetarchive
is helping to ensure permanent access to open access journal articles
We have identified and archived 9 million so far, and are just getting started
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Why yes... of course we have "that blog" archived in the
@waybackmachine
:
If you see something... archive it!
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At 11am Pacific, today, the
@internetarchive
and the
@waybackmachine
may go offline briefly as part of a planned network upgrade.
If that happens we promise we will come right back!
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More than 9 million previously broken links, from 22 Wikipedia language editions (sites), now point to the
@waybackmachine
and other web archives.
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Team Wayback Machine would love to welcome volunteers to help with our mission to make the Web more useful and reliable.
We are especially interested in people experienced with mobile app development, research and analytics, and design.
Please DM or email mark
@archive
.org
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January 6th, Executive Summary Report:
"Introductory Material to the Final Report of the Select Committee"
Dec 19th, 2022
154 Pages
762 Footnotes
268 Links (17 are
@waybackmachine
URLs)
Yes, we archived all of it at
@internetarchive
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@mascaraprof
@MarkGraham
@Forbes
@internetarchive
@JamesTodaroMD
That is not true. And, does not even make sense.
We LIVE to archive things and make them available. That is our reason for being.
If we do exclude something, e.g. at the request of a rights-holder, as per the law, you will see a message with the term "excluded" in it.
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Looking forward to participating in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with The Next Web (TNW) @ 1pm Pacific today:
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We love it when authors benefit from the
@internetarchive
’s Wayback Machine.
@jenmercieca
's book "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump"
Has 115 clickable links to URLs and 44 to the Wayback Machine.
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Wayback machine course from Agence France-Presse (in french)
Has the content you are looking for been removed? Take a look at online archives with tools like
@waybackmachine
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Journalist
@panaritism
says "the trusty search engine known as the Internet Archive Wayback Machine saved the day” in article about
Les Moonves
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To add some context to this tweet: https:// there are multiple captures of the front page of Google, during the time of the Jan 30 2018 State of the Union Address, in the
@waybackchine
, that show Google promoting its live feed. E.g.
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So very honored that Dr. Sawood Alam,
@ibnesayeed
, is a member of Team Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, leading our researcher support efforts and contributing to several other key projects… working to help make the Web more useful and reliable.
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