24 October

If a link you saved has stopped working, or an official page you cited has been redesigned, the original content may still be in a web archive. According to its press release that day, the Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine on 24 October 2001, letting anyone type in an address, pick a date and browse versions of web pages saved since 1996, though according to the Internet Archive's help center (checked in October 2026), password-protected pages and sites whose owners asked to be excluded may be missing from the archive. Between 1 September and 22 October 2026, every measurement of archive.org by OONI (Open Observatory of Network Interference) from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong was normal, as were most of those from Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and India (254 of 268 in India). Only 1 of 80 measurements from mainland China was normal and the rest were anomalies (a mismatch with the control measurement, which does not by itself confirm blocking) or failures, and GreatFire, which monitors censorship in China, listed the site as blocked there when checked on 23 October 2026, based on its last 5 conclusive tests, the latest on 1 September. Where the archive loads, you can use Save Page Now on web.archive.org to keep a copy of a page as it looks today, but anything saved is public, so think first if the page contains other people's personal information.