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Maybe this one https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
I'm using it on my phone. It gave me this https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/try... with a few taps.
For those dearly departed websites, a fine extension exists to easily pass a 404 URL to archive.org, painlessly loading the backed up site in 2 clicks of a mouse...
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https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
Internet archive is possible with regular bookmarks too, using extensions like web-archives, allowing you access the archived version in a click.
The Web Archives browser extension is great for this. It allows you to pull up archived versions of whatever website you're on, from a variety of archive sources. My go-to lately has been using the www.archive.is option when I use the extension.
https://archive.fo/rD6EB
https://web.archive.org/web/20220209122625/https://www.nytim...
I got these through the browser extension https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
or just going to the sites and searching.
HN is actually how I found out about archive.is/fo/today
There's a fantastic extension for Firefox, Chrome, etc. called Web Archives which will attempt to find a copy of the missing page from the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, Archive.is and many more.
google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...
teaching a man to fish:
The page is "temporarily unavailable" for me.
To help in your fight against paywalled and temporarilty unavailable pages, here's this (officially recommended) Firefox extension that looks up the current page in one of 18 web archives: