When it comes to online investigations, one thing that's always a problem is that if we're investigating
a website, a forum post or a social media post, that post might be deleted.
Web site may be deleted, altered or in some other way modified from the original content.
No, if we if we're able to get to the site or the forum post before that happens, we always could
do things like screenshots.
We might be able to do news program like H Drag to copy the web site, but what do we do if we get to
the page at a later date?
We can use things such as the Internet Archive to potentially pull up a archived version of that or
even create her own.
So let's take a look at it.
So if we go to the website archive.org, we could find a non-profit basically internet library here.
So as we see here, it's a nonprofit.
They have millions of free books, movies, software, web sites and more.
And we can scroll down here.
We can see various things like on the Android APK archive, we could see music, we could see religious
religion, television archives and so on and so forth.
So this is a pretty cool website.
And if I type in something in the Wayback Machine here and say, I look through Yahoo Yahoo.com, I
can eat the energy and in here I'll show the various archives they have for Yahoo dating back from 1996
up to the present.
So we could see in this chart here in the denser the graph, the more the more snapshots they have of
it.
So if I go back to 1996 here and click in here and we could see a calendar here and we see that there's
nothing from January through September here.
However, October we see some snapshots in here.
If we mouse over here, we could see one snapshot of October 20th.
And we could see seven snapshots on October 17, 1996, so let's go ahead and take a look at this.
So if we click in here.
We could take a look at what Yahoo would look like in 1996.
And as you can see here, the site looks pretty different from what it did on currently.
So this is actually really cool.
So we could actually look at historical data because the Internet Archive or Wayback Machine actually
took these different snapshots of the website during that time, which again makes it really handy because
someone could actually just delete out a website, delete a web page or whatnot, and normally it would
be gone with so on archived and we have access to it.
Well, with the Internet Archive, we could potentially grab those archives.
So like in here, we see this is July 31st, 2011, and we could actually go in here.
We can see the sidebar here wouldn't look like we could see the various headlines.
And then in here.
So pretty handy.
So let's take a look at another way we can do this.
So here I have the our website disposable heroes diggers.
And if I go to Wayback, the Wayback Machine, that web dot archive.org, we can create our own snapshot
in here.
So I just need to enter a URL that we're going to, that we're going to copy here.
I'm just going to copy this here.
OK.
And we're just going to paste in here and we could do save page.
Now it's.
Now, we need to be sure that if the pages are HTP s that you want to remove that, I'm just going to
uncheck the save error page and I'm going to click Save.
OK, and this is going to take a while, so it's going to start archiving that page for it.
So if anything happened to that page, we could actually grab a copy of it.
So I do that ahead of time because this could take a while.
I've seen this take anywhere between 15 minutes to a couple hours for it to actually archive.
So fortunately, this was actually pretty quick.
The Dugas pages are really huge.
And here is a here's another one here.
Let me just click on here.
And we could take a look at the page.
So now if I delete this page, if I modify this page from this point on, people could potentially go
in here.
They can grab that snapshot and see what the page look like at that time and date.
So again, having the historical data is actually really cool and really important for for ocean investigations.
So again, this was the Internet Archive, and we could find if we want to make a copy, we can go to
Web Dot Archive.org.
Otherwise we could find the Wayback Machine at at the archive.org.
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