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How can I have my site removed from the Wayback Machine?

The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or other Internet documents of persons who do not want their materials in the collection. By placing a simple...

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What are the known issues with the BETA test version?

We’ve tried to make sure the BETA test version works just as well as the classic, but we’ve probably overlooked an issue or two.  We would very much appreciate your feedback on the site, particularly...

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What is the Wayback Machine?

The Wayback Machine is an historical archive of preserved web pages.  Type in a URL and start surfing through time! Most societies agree that it is important to preserve artifacts of their culture and...

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What’s the difference between the classic Wayback Machine and the new BETA...

The Wayback Machine (WM) was first launched in 2001 using proprietary software written by Alexa Internet.  A few years ago, the Internet Archive wrote our own version of the Wayback and made that...

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Can I get just one page archived?

If you want to make sure we capture one single page of a site, you can follow the directions below.  We will only capture the one page you enter, and it does not get added to any sort of list to be...

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How should I report issues?

Thanks for trying out the BETA test version of the Wayback Machine.  Your feedback will help us iron out any remaining issues, so we encourage you to report problems by contacting us directly, or by...

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The page I want redirects now – how can I see the old versions?

When you search from the front page or the toolbar of the new Wayback BETA, we take you to the latest capture of a site by default.  If that site had a redirect on it when we crawled it, we’ll...

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Can I get a copy of this web page?

Internet Archive’s terms of use specify that users of the Wayback Machine are not to copy data from the collection. Many people also ask us if they can get copies of entire web sites.   Our terms of...

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How can I view a page without the Wayback code in it?

Pages in the Wayback Machine have been rewritten to preserve the browsing experience.  For example, when you look up the home page of archive.org in the Wayback Machine from 2005 and click a link...

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How can I find all the pages from one site?

You can search for all of the pages archived from a particular site by adding an asterisk (*) to the end of the URL.  For example, instead of searching for the page archive.org, you could search for...

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