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David Crookes

HISTORICAL FACTS: How to access archived web pages in google | History Defined

How to access archived web pages in Google.

When we learned how to access archived web pages in Google, we were overjoyed. The tech giant had retired Google Search’s cache links in February 2024 and this cut off a direct way to access older snapshots of webpages. Faced with a site that wouldn’t load or wanting to check out a slightly older version, the move caused quite a bit of frustration.

Anyone determined enough to go back in time, would head for the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine which has saved more than 886 billion web pages so far. But with Google now integrating a Wayback Machine link, you can once again get direct access to cached versions of websites. 

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