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Hitting the Wayback Machine

I find myself hitting 404ed pages all the time, and wanting to look the pages up in the Wayback Machine to see what they said when they existed. So, a quick bookmarklet: Get archived version. Drag to your bookmarks bar and click when you hit a 404.

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3 Responses to “Hitting the Wayback Machine”

  1. Nice.

    mrben
    26 hours later

  2. I’m currently using https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/318/

    (but then I don’t dig bookmarklets…)

    Senji
    30 hours later

  3. Among others, this one works great and encapsulates a few options https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2570/

    Jepp
    31 hours later

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