The web is decentralized and fluid by design, but all that chaos and ephemerality can make it difficult to keep a site up and online without interruption. That's what has made the Internet Archive's ...

This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving the internet through the Wayback Machine, which allows users to see how websites looked in the past.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The internet is ephemeral, with the average life of a web page – before it's changed or deleted – about 100 days. And so, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Perhaps the first and most important detail to understand about the ...

The Internet Archive is making it easier for web users to access archived versions of dead web pages with a new official add-on for Google Chrome browser. Above: Wayback Machine: Chrome Extension Once ...

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archives copies of websites every few weeks or months, going back to 1996. The Wayback Machine currently has almost 500 billion archived webpages. By entering a ...

Have you ever bookmarked a really good technical resource, but were disappointed when you tried to access that page later and it was gone? Have you ever seen what looks like the perfect linked ...

The Internet Archive is back online after new of a cyberattack took out its digital library and popular Wayback Machine on October 9. The Wayback Machine, a free online tool that lets users view old ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

What’s more alive—library stacks or the internet? Seems plain as day: The living one clamors and bleats. The one that’s dark and smells of mildew is dead. But it hasn’t always been obvious. At the ...

The New York Times has started blocking the Internet Archive's web crawlers, going beyond standard robots.txt rules to cut ...

The use of internet publications in legal affairs is surrounded by serious concerns as to their reliability, in particular about their date of availability. Even if an earlier date may be retrieved ...