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[[File:Wayback_Machine_logo_2010.svg|thumb|300px]]{{quote|''We want to make it so you can't just take things off the net and put them down the memory hole''|Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle|presentation at [https://www.rjionline.org/events/dodging-the-memory-hole-2017 Dodging the Memory Hole 2017]}}
The '''[http://archive.org/web/web.php Wayback Machine]''' is a section of the Internet Archive. What makes this website so notable is that, while the Internet Archive is, [[Captain Obvious|well]], [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|an archive of the Internet]], the Wayback Machine allows people to ''actually access'' past versions of web pages.
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The site proved to be a boon in (re)constructing the All The Tropes wiki, as [[TV Tropes]] had developed a nasty habit of deleting either [[Example Sectionectomy|examples]] or entire articles themselves, without even having the common courtesy to keep a page history around for reference. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20100628221425/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoYeah Even legitimate tropes have gotten the axe], just because they couldn't stop people from [[Pothole|potholing]] to them.)
[http://wayback.archive.org/web/20100910084226*/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MainPage This link] leads to the results for the TV Tropes [[Main Page]] in the Wayback Machine; changing the URL posted to that of either existing articles or Permanent Red Link Club members, you can access the site and reminisce about how it used to be, before [[About/The Second Google Incident|it fell from grace]]. Or rescue material that has yet to be restored here.
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