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Similar to archive.today, the Wayback Machine takes snapshots of webpages at certain times, as well as user-initiated on-demand archiving called "Save Page Now" (SPN). [2] [3] Wayback and archive.today operate differently, and certain pages can be archived by one but not the other. Wayback is used in over 80% of instances.
Archive.today was founded in 2012. The site originally branded itself as archive.today, but changed the primary mirror to archive.is in May 2015. [6] It began to deprecate the archive.is domain in favor of other mirrors in January 2019. [7] As of 2021, archive.today had saved about 500 million pages. [5]
Currently a link that has been archived can have one of two states, dead or live. If the link is live, the original link will be pulled, if dead the archived one. However, this does not work well if the link is still live, but has been moved behind a paywall (or registration requirement, etc).
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archive.today is an on-demand web archiving service at https://archive.today. A web archiving service allows Wikipedia editors to reduce link rot by preserving a copy of an online source that can be accessed if the original page is moved, changes, or disappears. Not all web pages can be archived using archive.today.
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The article contains false information: "archive.today removes archived pages in response to DMCA takedown requests from copyright holders." As a webmaster, I've had my site scraped against my will and sent a properly formatted DMCA to both the site and its ISP. It is a scarping site, masking as an archiving service.
When adding an archive URL to any citation where the original resource URL is still working, it is useful to add the |url-status=live parameter. With |url-status=live , clicking the title in the footnote invokes the original (live) URL, clicking "Archived" gives the archived copy.