From ancient forums to chaotic 2000s web design, this site preserves decades of internet history for you to explore.

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 ...

Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with ...

The Wayback Machine only took 148,628 snapshots from those same 100 news websites' homepages between May 17 and Oct. 1, 2025.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

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 ...

More companies are opting not to archive their sites ...

This is yet another example of the far-reaching nature of the AI-driven component crisis.

Two of the most extensive cataloguers of the Web will now work in tandem to make sure your digital embarrassments live on forever. Smith Collection/Gado/Archive Photos/Getty Images Always Online, now ...

Even the Wayback Machine is getting into fact-checking now. In a blog post on its website, the Internet Archive announced it was rolling out fact-checking annotations on certain webpages archives by ...

Stanford study finds 35% new websites AI-generated since ChatGPT 2022 launch; Internet Archive data shows transformation.