Time travel is impossible… Internet archives are the next best thing!
When you’re conducting research or an online investigation, you don’t need to be limited to what is currently live on a website…
Tools like the Internet Wayback Machine let you access historical snapshots of existing websites, which is useful for finding content that used to be public but isn’t anymore. This might include documents, directories, endpoints, or random files that were taken offline for a variety of reasons, but can still be found in archived copies of the site.
If something was publicly accessible at some point, an archive snapshot can help show that. Think of it like time travel without the complicated physics or the butterfly effect! 🤷⌚
Below is the GitHub Gist I made for this: internet-archiving-sites.md