How to View Lost Webpages

If a webpage you wanted to open is not accessible – for which the reasons could range from a temporary network issue to a page being removed from the website entirely – then you don’t need to lose hope. It’s actually possible to recover backed-up versions of most pages from the Internet with just a little know-how. The whole process is incredibly simple, and you’ll find it very useful if you’re to research a topic, and you discover that the links you’ve been saving for weeks or even months no longer work.

If you want to read a webpage that has been deleted or is otherwise not accessible anymore, this is what you can do.

Wayback Machine

Archive.org’s Wayback is probably the best tool to recover any deleted webpage. It is a part of the Internet Archive, a non-profit organisation that tries to duplicate all content on the Internet. It has saved over 435 billion Web pages, which probably isn’t all the content on the Internet, but is still impressive. Pages are captured multiple times so for example we used the Wayback Machine to look at the NDTV Gadgets homepage across several different years, and saw our design evolving with time.

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