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The British Library's record of the UK web, collected under legal deposit — including sites their owners deleted years ago.
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UK Web Archive sits in Web Archives under Retro, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as brainy and nostalgic.
Archives, dead websites brought back and search pointed at the past. What the web looked like before it settled down.
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.
Petabytes of crawled web pages released free for anyone to analyse. Most of the language models you have used started here.
Records a page as you browse it, capturing the parts a crawler cannot — logged-in views, video, anything behind a click.
Archived research papers, including preprints and journals that have since folded, kept readable rather than merely cited.
Thematic collections captured around elections, disasters and cultural moments, chosen by librarians rather than by a crawler.
Browses the archives through emulated period browsers, so an old page renders the way it did rather than the way Chrome guesses.