Practical guide
Wayback Machine alternatives: choose an archive, a recorder, or a monitor
Finding a deleted page, preserving a citation and tracking a redesign need different tools. Here is where each one fits, and where it does not.
The blog
Understand the web’s past.
Two researched guides to finding old pages, preserving new ones and reading web history carefully.
Researched history
A history of the Wayback Machine: collecting the web before we could browse its past
The Internet Archive began saving the web in 1996. Public Wayback browsing arrived in 2001. The five-year gap explains what the project was trying to build.