Archive Webpages

[Nova]

I most of the time use the archive.org website to take the snapshot of the images of the website. And it works out for me to store the instance of the webpage.
I am wondering how many of the websites also take their own such snapshots to store the website instance for years.
other than archive do you know similar free services?

Do you know any such archive websites?

 

[Empire]

USed it, but it's hard to get a good image of your old site back in the day. It's like the theme and CSS is all messed up at the time. Seems that doesn't work for everyone. I used it for playing around looking at other sites like google

 

[TopSilver]

Yeah I've used them to look at some of my older websites that I used to run, and also a couple communities that have been around since my childhood I was a member on. As @Empire mentioned, the issue is usually with broken CSS but some snapshots aren't that bad. I managed to get a 2005 snap-shot of the famous modding community se7ensins and sent pictures to the owner which I had talked to. Sure he's seen it many times but was impressive to me to look back after all those years.

Not sure of any of the same services, as they would of already had to be around for many years and would be (to my knowledge) incredibly difficult to get a snapshot if you were new.

 

[Empire]

Seems that IPB sites don't seem to be capturing CSS is always broken.

 

[Abizaga]

I love sites like webarchive who hold the history of the internet seriously.

 

[apathy]

I can spend a good amount of time on archive looking at old forums I used to be a member of, but as mentioned a lot of the time the CSS is borked.
Theres a lot of stuff on that website, even outside of just webpages, which makes it a pretty handy resource.

 

[Demon_skeith]

I think it's called time machine? Or something like that which keeps track of old pages. I use it a few times if I want to revisit old sites.

 

[Kylie]

I look for old forums using the Wayback Machine website.: Explore more than 591 billion web pages saved over time.

 

[Empire]

time the CSS is borked.

Like 100% of the time ;(