Introduction to the Wayback Machine

This introduction to using the Wayback Machine includes information about searching by URL or keyword, understanding provenance, and saving your own pages, along with other features.
Wayback Machine Browser Extensions & add ons:

Chrome
Firefox
Safari

Wayback Machine apps:

iOS
Android

Resources

Help Center - Wayback Machine
Fact Checks and Context for Wayback Machine Pages (2020)
The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now is New and Improved (2019)
Wayback Machine Playback… now with Timestamps! (2017)
If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine (2017)
FAQs for some new features available in the Beta Wayback Machine (2016)

Related Reading

More than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued (2018)
Making the Web More Reliable — 20 Years and Counting (2016)
Can the Internet Be Archived? (The New Yorker, 2015)

Presenter BioAlexis Rossi manages the digital collections of the Internet Archive. From 2006-2008, Rossi founded and launched OpenLibrary.org, as well as working on the Open Content Alliance. From 2009-2015 Rossi managed mass web crawling projects and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Some of her current projects include 78rpm digitization, radio, television and podcast archiving, and large scale metadata improvement and linking. You can learn more about her at alexisrossi.com.