Finding Old Web Pages

I was trying to access a blog post while the weblogs.asp.net site was down over the weekend, and remembered this resource for grabbing old versions of websistes:

Archives of Dead Web Pages: Wayback, Cache, and More:

Finding Old Web Pages -  The Web changes constantly, and sometimes that page that had just the information you needed yesterday (or last month or two years ago) is not available today. At other times you may want to see how a page's content or design has changed. There are several sources for finding Web pages as they used to exist.

My main preference is the old Google trick of doing a search for a broken link using the "cache:" prefix (much like the "site:" prefix, but with the full url.

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