Documenting the Web: Restoring Web Pages with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

Quickly restore missing web pages with Internet Archive

A librarian using the Internet Archive to restore government web pages

From small edits to big revisions to complete removal, websites change all the time. Librarians and other archivists have organized ways to preserve online materials with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. In a previous installment of ✨LibTech Tools✨, Choice editor and publisher Rachel Hendrick and information services industry expert Gary Price covered Internet Archive’s Save Page function, which allows users to save an entire web page quickly.

In this follow-up video, Gary demonstrates how users can restore previous versions of changed or deleted web pages with Internet Archive’s free browser extension.

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