Very good question! The general theme of web archiving is still not adequately addressed (imho), in order to fight bit rot of hyperlinks and preserve digital on

Very good question! The general theme of web archiving is still not adequately addressed (imho), in order to fight bit rot of hyperlinks and preserve digital online web sources. I find it amusing that usually nobody seems to think about or care for "who conserves the web for future generations". Coming from academia, I myself primarily use The Wayback Machine. In research literature I also encounter some use of WebCite (http://www.webcitation.org http://www.webcitation.org) in references. Anyone interested in web archiving, might have a look at introduction to web archiving at wikipedia, including an overview of web archiving services: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_archiving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_archiving If the past version of the page you are looking for is <3 months old, you could also try cache:URL in google search (or equivalent function in other search engine).