You may be asking yourself, “Should I use the Wayback Machine?” if you need to confirm what appeared on a website in the past for litigation, investigations, or regulatory inquiries. If you are ...

One of the biggest problems with the modern internet is its impermanence. While we're told that what we upload to the internet sticks around forever, that fact just isn't true. Websites shut down, ...

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. USA Today Co., the publishing ...

Content scraping is harming the information business in ways that could not have been foreseen. Case in point: At least three major news organizations are blocking access to their content by the ...

The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director ...

Reddit's public content policy doesn't block such good-faith actors from using its data for non-commercial purposes. However, the platform was recently "made aware of instances where AI companies ...

News publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories due to concerns tech companies could scrape ...

The "Wayback Machine," custodian of digital memory, is fighting for its survival. An increasing number of media outlets are ...

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...