{"id":179,"date":"2005-05-01T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/01\/internet-archive-wayback-machine-tracking-history-of-websites-by-archived-dates\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:05:49","slug":"internet-archive-wayback-machine-tracking-history-of-websites-by-archived-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/internet-archive-wayback-machine-tracking-history-of-websites-by-archived-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayback Machine: How to See Old Versions of Any Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lets you see what any website looked like in the past. Type in a web address, pick a date, and you can browse archived versions of pages going back to 1996. We first wrote about the Wayback Machine in 2005, when it held about 40 billion pages. In October 2025, the Internet Archive celebrated passing one trillion archived web pages. Here is how to use the Wayback Machine in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Quick answer:<\/strong> Go to web.archive.org, enter a website address and press Enter. The calendar shows every date the page was saved; click a highlighted date to view that snapshot. To archive a page yourself, use Save Page Now on the same site. Site owners who do not want their pages shown can ask the Internet Archive to exclude them.<\/p>\n

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