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Australia's national archive of newspapers, websites and photographs, digitised back to 1803 and open without an account.
Opens in a new tab. We do not control this site and it may have changed since we catalogued it.
Trove sits in Web Archives under Retro, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Archives, dead websites brought back and search pointed at the past. What the web looked like before it settled down.
Yes. Trove is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Trove without signing up for anything.
Yes. Trove works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
The British Library's record of the UK web, collected under legal deposit — including sites their owners deleted years ago.
Thousands of themed collections built by libraries and museums, each one somebody's deliberate decision about what to keep.
Takes a permanent snapshot of a page on demand, including ones the Wayback Machine will not capture. Useful when a page is about to change.
The Portuguese web archive, notable for full-text search across its whole history rather than only address lookup.
Write a Turing machine in a few lines and watch the tape head shuffle back and forth carrying it out.
Plotter art drawn by a virtual turtle in a hundred-odd lines of JavaScript, with everybody's source code on display.
Searchable captions across millions of hours of broadcast news, which makes it possible to find the exact moment something was said.
Typing practice on real open-source code, complete with the brackets and semicolons that ruin everyone's average.
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