Wayback Machine is one of the most important sites on the web that works as an archive of all the web pages that have disappeared over time. In addition to being of historical interest to find out what sites were like in the past, Wayback Machine is also a very useful tool to load links and internet addresses of pages that have disappeared, temporarily or forever, or that have changed radically.
You can then install an official Chrome extension of Wayback Machine, or an unofficial one for Firefox, which allows you to retrieve and load links to web pages with an error " page not found ", typically reported by the browser with the number 404 .
Thanks to this extension, or every time you try to open a dead link or an offline and no longer active site, you can try to load it anyway using the saved copy of Wayback Machine .
The extension for Google Chrome Wayback Machine automatically detects when you open an offline URL with an error code of type 404, 408, 410, 451, 500, 502, 503, 504, 509, 520, 521, 523, 524, 525 and 526 and therefore suggests uploading the version saved in its archive.
Every time, therefore, you try to open an old article that you wanted to retrieve or reread, but the page no longer exists and the error 404 or a page not found message is presented, you can still try to read that page by loading his old version recorded by Wayback Machine.
On Firefox a similar extension is Resurrect Pages, which allows you to fish a page that no longer exists not only from WayBack Machine, but also from other online archives, as well as the cached copy of Google.
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