With censorship soaring to new heights, it’s become commonplace… You click on what you anticipate being a valuable source of information relating to your research, only to discover that the article (webpage) has been deleted.
From Uncensored issue #70
from the publisher:
Well, you may be in luck, as there is a relatively unknown utility known as the “Way Back Machine” (https://web.archive.org), managed by the good folks at Barnes and Noble, that has been crawling and archiving thousands of webpages every day since 1996. And they offer all their archives (792 billion to date) free of charge and without even requiring you to create an account.
To illustrate how the Way Back Machine works, we’ll use the link below to an article that is referenced in Uncensored issue #68, but has since been removed from the hosting website (Pfizer).
https://pfe-pfizercom-d8-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-11/C4591001_Clinical_Protocol_Nov2020.pdf
To see if the Way Back Machine contains any archives of this particular article, we simply open a browser and go to web.archive.org, type-in or copy/paste the article’s URL from above and press the <Enter> key.
If any archives of the webpage are available, a timeline will be displayed with the most recent attempted capture dates indicated by either orange or blue circles.
While it is not immediately clear from this example, the availability of the webpage is indicated by the following:
- Dates that aren’t highlighted indicate no captures were attempted or taken.
- Dates highlighted with Orange circles indicate that a capture was attempted, but the webpage was not available.
- Dates highlighted with Blue circles indicate a capture (or captures) of the webpage are available and the number of available captures is indicated by the size of the circle.
- Hovering over any Blue circle will display the available captures for that day and selecting (clicking) a snapshot will open that archive for viewing. Standard Print and Download icons are located in the upper-right.
- A 21-minute video providing complete instructions and advanced capabilities is available at:
It warrants repeating that this valuable resource is provided free of charge. As such, if you find it useful, please consider making a small, tax-deductible donation at the link below to maintain its viability.
https://archive.org/donate?origin=iawww-TopNavDonateButton
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