Kolin Ohi

Karen Genest

Archive-It is designed to fit the needs of many types of organizations and individuals. The over 200 partners include: state archives, university libraries, federal institutions, state libraries, non government non profits, museums, historians, and independent researchers.

The End of Term Web Archive documents the United States Governments World Wide Web presence during the transition between the administrations of President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.

Nicholas Chaffee

The Internet Archive and many individual contributors worked together to put together a comprehensive list of websites to create a historical record of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the massive relief effort which followed. This collection has over 25 million unique pages, all text searchable, from over 1500 sites. The web archive commenced on September 4th.

Top Level Contributors

Bryant Durrell

Wayback Machine Hardware

Anthony Kwok

Kelly Ransom

Patrick Tufts

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Jonathan Baker

Jamie Muth

The End of Term Web Archive 2008-2009

Jeff MacDonald

Phillip Ludwig

September 11th

Greger Orelind

CaWebtherine Kulkarni

The early years of the internet are a testament to the internets diversity and ingenuity. This special collection highlights a handful of sites that played a role in the early internet.

Adrianne Hurndell

Rick Davis

Joshua Simons

Jay Burlingham

Bhagat Khalsa

Thanks to a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, Internet Archive completed a 2 billion page web crawl in 2007. At the time this was the largest web crawl attempted by Internet Archive. The project was designed to take a global snapshot of the Web.

Aaron Stewart

Stacey Oborne

National Archives

Minghua Lu

Abagail Thorne-Lyman

Cyndy Riley

David Harrison

Andy Jewell

Colleen Smith

Brian Freyburger

Laura Oppenheimer

Paul Sauer

David Allison

Youssef Eldakar

Brewster Kahle

Igor Ranitovic

Charles OConnell

Marc Engel

Virginia Gonzalez

Web Collaborations with the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress

These questions are central to the K12 Web Archiving Program, a partnership between the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress. Now in its fourth year, with 5th to 12th graders participating in schools across the country, Web, this program provides a new perspective on saving history and culture, allowing students to actively participate and make decisions about what at risk website content will be saved.

Z Smith

Geoffrey Mack

Melody Kean Haller

Dan Chow

Elizabeth Chase

Jennifer Gill

Hal Varian

Contact Us

Seth Morris

Voloe Scott

Browse through over 240 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.

Thanks to gyford.com

Catherine Baggott

Steven Schneider

Emily Rane

Shaun Fogarty

Mira Han

John Mrozik

Scott Hassan

Aaron Parkening

Kelly Humphrey

Alzbeta Smith

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Matthew Work

Chris Stuart

Dale Wilhelm

Michele Kimpton

Lawrence Lessig

Shaun Delp

Alexis Rossi

Marta Hutz

Mary Lou Jepsen

Put the Wayback Machine right in your browser!

Mark Dirsa

Avi Hangad

You will be transported to any historic versions at the Wayback Machine.

Jason Gollan

Eileen Webb

Special thanks to the memory institutions who contributed URLs to the crawl. The crawl began with 18,000 websites from over 60 countries.

Claire Salih

Mia Yamamoto

the Internet archive at the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt, mirrors the Wayback Machine. Try your search there when you have trouble connecting to the Wayback servers.

Darian Patchin

When you visit a page that you want to find an old version of, just click the link.

Andy Jenks

Mark Garrell

Dave Marvit

Raphael Crawford-Marks

Election 2002

Glee Harrah Cady

Iman Sadreddin

Drag this link to your browsers : Wayback

Please browse through the resulting collection.

John Tan

Darryl Daugherty

Cynthia Lohr

Zainub Ashraf

Dia Cheney

Patrick Brannigan

Lilly Buchwitz

Niall ODriscoll

Jason Maxham

Laura Cambell

Julie Smuckler

Mary C. (Cassy) Ammen

Keith Hudson

radio lira uganda

Hunter Brown

Dave Sherfesee

Kelly Dragoo

Marek Ryniejski

Kathryn Tchobanoglous

Joshua Winsor

David Hoffer

Veronica Collins

Khalid El-Gazzar

Doug Hansen

Steve Renaker

Alan Rath

Ellen Shing

Archive-It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of digital content, through a user friendlyInternet Archive_ Web web application,new york escort without requiring any technical expertise or hosting cilities. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center, and accessible to the public with full text search.

Ezra Ekman

Jamie Lewandowski

Kirsten Foot

Bruce Gilliat

Jad DeFanti

John Smith

Jason Binder

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Cheryl Johnson

Adam Tuttle

Boaz Reisman

Ronna Tanenbaum

Terry Gambarotto

Amy Vecchione

Jennifer Burke

Adrian Scott

Kristen Olson

The 1,700 Collections captured by Archive-It range from subject matters as diverse as Political parties in Latin America to the Matthew Shepard Web Archive to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to Iranian Blogs to North Carolina State Government Web Site Archive.

Jennifer Deane

Jae Hahn

Jonathan Goodman

Pei-Yuan Wei

Ivan Pulleyn

Michael Kepe

Paula Keezer

Helen Chan

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Jill Brady

Jason Broughton

Anna Naruta

Amber Shipley

Chris Becker

Sean Walsh

Jared Stika

The Library of Congress, in collaboration with WebArchivist.org of the State University of New York Institute of Technology and the Internet Archive, created the Election 2002 Web Archive. A selective collection of nearly 4,000 sites archived between July 1, 2002 and November 30, 2002, the collection includes congressional and gubernatorial candidates, political party, government, advocacy, blogs, public opinion, and miscellaneous Web sites related to the 2002 United States elections.

Tracey Jaquith

Sondra Halperin

Philip Green

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Judith Bush

Tim Pozar

Juan Bonilla

Kristen Zwart

Joe Kacmarcik

The Wayback Machine Bookmarklet

Willem Spiegel

Marc Najork

Dylan Murphy

Jeffrey Bartolotta

Daria DePaolis

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Web Pioneers

Mike Fleisher

Anne-miek Hamelinck

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The tragic events of September 11, 2001, prompted web creators around the world to respond. This special collection of archived web sites preserves this unique moment in our history.

Ivan Rodrigo Garay

Jared Waxman

Sondra Cholach

Jeff McConathy

Ann Stramer

Kimberly Testa

Terms, Privacy, Copyright

Alan Wen

Harry Winand

Guolin Cheng

Michael Burner

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Jonathan A. Leblang

Joseph Oliver

Joy Nazzari

Steve Nichols

The UK Central Government Web Archive is a selective collection of UK Government websites, archived from August 2003, which has been collected by the Internet Archive on behalf of the National Archives of the United Kingdom. history.

David Sherfesee

Camron Assadi

Yu-Shen Ng

Debra Perlson

Dorian Patchin

Frequent Asked Questions

Jamie White

Walter Bell

Melissa Ryan

Deanna Weber

Elliot Sarvarese

If you were a K12 student which websites would you want to save for future generations? What would you want people to look at 50 or even 500 years from now?

Devin Vagt

Eliot Savarese

Kurt Bollacher

Robert Norris

Rommel Ruelos

View the K-12 Web Archiving Program website

Alicia Coryell

Bob Kaehms

Tom Corley

Steven Herrera

Hoa Nguyen

Kathleen Egge

Ron Shalhoup

Adrian Blakey