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🧵 Curious how researchers, journalists, and artists dig into the web’s past? 🌐

WAYS OF WORKING WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE shows how the #WaybackMachine opens up discovery & creativity from tracking platform changes to investigating misinformation & remixing archived sites.

A recent gathering at Internet Archive Europe shared methods, tools, and collaborations shaping digital research and media art.

Learn more ⤵️
https://www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/ways-of-working-with-the-wayback-machine/

#WebArchives #DigitalResearch @internetarchiveeurope

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Promotional slide captioned “Ways of Working with the Wayback Machine, 9 February 2026, Internet Archive HQ,” with Internet Archive Europe and Wayback Machine logos at the top. The slide includes a photo of about ten adults seated in a bright room with large windows and wooden floors, arranged in a casual circle discussion. To the right is a graphic of a magnifying glass over a document icon.

Promotional slide depicts three adult women working on laptops in front of a window, in front of windows overlooking a canal in Amsterdam.

Promotional slide of two adult men standing at the controls for an interactive system for viewing the Netherlands websites archived on the Wayback Machine.

Promotional slide featuring a screenshot from the video "Google and the politics of tabs," featuring a 3D timeline view of archived Google homepage snapshots from December 17, 2001.

Internet Archive Europe - Bringing Collections to Life

Ways of working with the Wayback Machine

Guest post by Jonathan W. Y. Gray. How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do they use? What other kinds of tools might support critical and creative repurposing of archived web materials?As web archives have come to play an

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