Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

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Internet Archive Blogs Updates from the Internet Archive Menu Skip to content archive.org Blog Announcements About Events Developers Donate Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web Posted on April 23, 2026 by Sawood Alam TL;DR: A Pew Research Center study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago, and about 25% of pages sampled across the decade, are now inaccessible; our analysis shows that the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages. In 2024, the Pew Res

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