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When needing to search for a website that is no longer present on the Internet today but was online few years back, what site can be used to view the website collection of pages?view the website?…
The correct answer is D. Archive.org. Archive.org, specifically its Wayback Machine tool (web.archive.org), is an Internet archive that has been crawling and storing snapshots of websites since 1996. It allows users to browse historical versions of websites that may no longer be active. This is an invaluable tool…
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When needing to search for a website that is no longer present on the Internet today but was online few years back, what site can be used to view the website collection of pages?view the website? collection of pages?
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- AProxify.net
- BDnsstuff.com
- CSamspade.org
- DArchive.org
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(34 responses)- A3% (1)
- B3% (1)
- D94% (32)
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Archive.org, specifically its Wayback Machine tool (web.archive.org), is an Internet archive that has been crawling and storing snapshots of websites since 1996. It allows users to browse historical versions of websites that may no longer be active. This is an invaluable tool in digital forensics for reconstructing past online activity. The other options - Proxify.net (a web proxy), Dnsstuff.com (a DNS lookup tool), and Samspade.org (a network investigation tool) - do not provide archived historical website snapshots.
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