When it comes to restoring websites from archives, almost everyone thinks only of the Wayback Machine. That's understandable: archive.org is well known, it has a convenient interface, a trillion saved pages. But the Wayback Machine is not the only major web archive in the world. There is a project that is comparable in the volume of collected data to the Internet Archive, and in some respects even surpasses it. This project is called Common Crawl, and surprisingly few people know about it, even among those who work professionally with web archives.

We've released a browser extension called Archivarix Cache Viewer. It's available for both Chrome and Firefox. The extension is free and contains no ads whatsoever.
The idea is simple: quick access to cached and archived versions of any web page right from the browser's context menu. No more manually copying URLs, opening Wayback Machine and pasting the address there. Right-click, pick the archive you need, done.

When you restore a website from the Web Archive, you expect to get original content that was once written by real people. But if the site's archives were made after 2023, there's a real chance of encountering texts generated by language models. Website owners were mass-replacing original content with texts from ChatGPT and similar tools, often without even trying to edit them.

In October 2025, the Wayback Machine reached the milestone of one trillion archived web pages. Over 100,000 terabytes of data. This is a massive achievement for a nonprofit organization that has been operating since 1996. But behind this impressive number lies a difficult period that Internet Archive has gone through over the past year and a half. Cyberattacks, lawsuits, changes in access policies, and new challenges from AI companies - all of this directly affects those who use the web archive for website restoration.

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