Internet Archives

June 18, 2022

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Update: 1/1/2023

The Archives:

There are three main archives for US-related purposes, (though there are several other initiatives around the world, see wiki page List of Archiving Initiatives.).

web.archive.org – The Internet Archive / WAYBACKMACHINE is :

the archive with more archived data
does have keyword search
does have a reverse image search via – rootabout.com
BUT when you are searching for a url you will only find results for that exact url you typed

archive.is – Archive Today is :

a better archive for finding websites and information as it will find subdomains or related hosts for the url that you searched
can lookup social media and google maps
consider using spoonbill in conjunction with archive.is searches on Twitter, spoonbill technique (below) will let you see all a Twitter account’s profile changes over time
BUT it no keyword search tool
reportedly has less data than the Internet Archive

https://webarchive.loc.gov/ – The Library of Congress Web Archive is categorized and its content was deliberately chosen, therefore I think it is best to search for you subject matter before looking for a specific website. Alternatively, if you see your website-of-interest is archived there, look at its category so you can maybe find other useful sites. :

LOC is best used if you are looking for a specific subject. Go to the central page – https://www.loc.gov/web-archives/ – will let you search by subject, dates, locations, series, etc.

https://carbondate.cs.odu.edu/ – attempts to figure out when a website was created (consider using this in conjunction with whois history searches from previous post)

http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/ – look up archived website from specified date and time

Rootabout.com – does reverse image searches in Internet Archive and Open Library

Spoonbill – See Twitter profiles’ changes over time by using the following url with the account username:

https://spoonbill%5B.%5Dio/twitter/data/search_ish <–input other twitter usernames here and remove the brackets from ” spoonbill[.]io ”

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