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Federal Advisory Committees

Federal Advisory Committees

Thirty years of U.S. federal advisory committees and the record 2025 wave of terminations, with Internet Archive preservation status for each

CDC Vaccine Safety Timeline

CDC Vaccine Safety Timeline

Every version of a CDC vaccine-safety page: 879 Wayback captures, four distinct versions, three changes — what changed and when

Climate Insights Directory

Climate Insights Directory

42,390 reports, policy briefs and analyses on climate change from 96 civil society organizations around the world, searchable by topic, country and organization.

serverlessNorth Korea Explorer

North Korea Explorer

The North Korean web, 2016–2024, as a time scrubber, a map of 43 sites and a serendipity walk — every page preserved in the Wayback Machine.

Community Meetings

Community Meetings

Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation. Find, search and add recordings of city council, school board, planning, water, sewer and harbor district meetings from archive.org's Community Media collection — starting with complete coverage of Half Moon Bay, CA.

serverlessLetters from Congress

Letters from Congress

69,650 letters posted on 514 members of Congress’s own websites, 2000–2026, archived by the Wayback Machine: who each member wrote to, what they asked for, and when.

DocCheck

DocCheck

An open, editable "X-Ray" layer for documentary film: who and what is on screen, where the archival footage came from, the documents behind each scene, and fact-checks of the claims, each one linked to Wikidata, cited, and preserved in the Wayback Machine. Every edit is kept in a public history, and everything imports and exports as open linked data (W3C Web Annotation, WebVTT, IIIF, ClaimReview). First film: Missing, Presumed Dead, on Korean War POWs.

EPA Web Archive

EPA Web Archive

archive.epa.gov retires on December 31, 2026. Search the 230,918 pages, PDFs and files the Wayback Machine holds from it, and check what is preserved.

FiveThirtyEight Index

FiveThirtyEight Index

38,593+ FiveThirtyEight articles, datasets, podcasts, graphics & illustrations preserved via the Wayback Machine after Disney deleted the site.

Gawker Articles

Gawker Articles

Gawker's original article addresses now return 404. Browse every Gawker story preserved in the Wayback Machine, 2002–2023 — gawker.com, Defamer, Valleywag and the rest — by writer, year, site and publishing era, with full-text search inside the articles and across all 1,019,168 archived gawker.com pages.

Haiti Rewired

Haiti Rewired

Wired's community site for rebuilding Haiti after the 2010 earthquake is gone from the web. Browse the 4,618 pages the Wayback Machine kept — blog posts, discussions, photos, videos, events, groups and members.

Indic Digital Archives

Indic Digital Archives

93,279 digitized Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Kashmiri manuscripts, books and journals — scanned by eGangotri and partner centres in Varanasi, Jammu, Srinagar, Delhi, Lucknow and Kathmandu, reassembled from 128 scattered archive.org accounts into one browsable, thumbnailed index.

Interspecies Communications Resources

Interspecies Communications Resources

Twelve collections on understanding and communicating with other species: news, academic research, weekly briefs, events, a directory, the Interspecies Data EXchange (IDEX), books, videos, audio, music and films, the Interspecies Conversations talks, DIY and citizen science, resources for young people, and the Secret Squirrel Files.

In The News

In The News

12,000+ press & media mentions of the Internet Archive & Wayback Machine — searchable by source, year, subject & keyword.

USAO-DC Press Releases

USAO-DC Press Releases

DOJ removed nearly the entire public press-release archive of the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office in May 2026 — 4,772 releases, including hundreds of Jan. 6 Capitol-breach cases. Every one documented with Wayback Machine evidence.

Court Opinions Citing Wayback

Court Opinions Citing Wayback

268 court opinions since 2007 that cite the Wayback Machine, on a timeline and map, filterable by court, state and case type, plus 4,916 federal court filings from RECAP that mention it.

Local News, U.S.

Local News, U.S.

Thousands of American local newsrooms, crawled daily since 2024. Browse every unique story in the Internet Archive's Local News collection by outlet, writer and date — each one linked to its Wayback Machine capture.

Novaya Gazeta

Novaya Gazeta

Novaya Gazeta closes on November 9, 2026, and turns off its servers. Search its articles from 1995 on, see which the Wayback Machine holds, and which are still live and unsaved.

President's Daily Brief Explorer

President's Daily Brief Explorer

The 71 declassified PDB products on Bin Ladin, 1998-2001 — OCR'd, full-text searchable, on a timeline.

Prelinger Archives

Prelinger Archives

12,384 home movies, newsreels & “useful cinema” — advertising, educational, government & industrial films — searchable by decade, genre, subject & collection.

Pulp Magazine Explorer

Pulp Magazine Explorer

Search the Internet Archive's scanned pulp magazines by author, pen name or story and jump straight to the page where it starts. Joins ISFDB's bibliography (CC BY 4.0) to about 5,300 archive.org issues, with about 110,000 page links.

Rapa Nui Research and Resources

Rapa Nui Research and Resources

The Easter Island Foundation journal, 1986-2020 - 1,549 items and 3.6 million words from three archives - plus the rongorongo corpus: 26 objects, 14,884 sign positions and every Barthel tracing - and the island in the news, every story linked to the Wayback Machine

Russian Independent Media

Russian Independent Media

Search the news articles in the Wayback Machine's Russian Independent Media collection — Meduza, Novaya Gazeta, TV Rain and 48 more seed sites, plus the sites they linked to.

State Department X Timeline Viewer

State Department X Timeline Viewer

Replay a State Department account’s posts, month by month, as X showed them.

Compare Two Captures

Compare Two Captures

Compare the article text of any two Wayback Machine captures, of the same URL or two different ones: paragraphs lined up, word changes in yellow and blue, a timeline of each URL, and a machine-written summary of the main changes.