created: 20220923144125627
creator: Octt
modified: 20230613185301954
modifier: Octt
tags: Archiving Internet $:/i18n:en
title: Wayback Machine

The [[Wayback Machine|https://web.archive.org]] is a public website archiving service, provided by the [[Internet Archive|Internet Archive]].

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The project exists to fulfill the goal of Web content preservation. It allows for users to visit a snapshot of a webpage captured in the past, serving as a way to preserve history, both in the case of the site owners altering the contents of a page, or simply the server going permanently down.