How to watch old sites

The Internet is not standing still. Updated every day millions of websites. Change design, content and basis of their work. To obtain outdated, but some relevant information in two common ways: search in the web archive and search the information in the cache of search engines.

You will need

• A computer connected to the Internet.

Instruction

1. Search engines periodically crawl the Internet, keeping copies of web pages in its memory. Usually you save a copy of the same date - the day website indexing search engine. Search in the web archive is more efficient since it can produce output on multiple dates.
2. To search for the old version of the site in the web archive launch browser. In the address bar enter the website web.archive.org. This is the main world service archive, search and view old versions of websites. On the website, in the line of The Wayback Machine, enter the address of your desired site and click the next button Take me back. After clicking the button, a timeline of the existence of the desired website in years, at the top of the website, and a calendar drill down to a particular year in months and days, at the bottom. First select the year, month and specific day of the existence of the website in the calendar grid. You can then see the version of the desired site for a selected date.
3. To search for the old version of the site in кtше most famous search engine Google in the browser address bar enter google.com please visit the website. In the search bar, type cache:yoursite.com where yoursite.com – your desired website. Click the search button. A search engine will give your page, in the upper part of the site will have an additional row that shows the date of the last indexing of the desired website.
4. Check the cache, and the most famous Russian search engine — Yandex. In the browser address bar enter yandex.ru please visit the website. In the search bar, type the address of the desired website. Click the search button. Then search engine will give you a list of options, among which you need to find the link, leading to the desired website. In the same paragraph at the end of the description links to search for the word "copy". Click on it and, as in the case of Google, the search engine will give your page saved in the cache of Yandex, while the upper part shows an additional line where you can see the date of the last indexing of the desired website.