# Finding cached websites **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 16, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872 "2011-03-16T03:39:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/1 "2011-03-16T03:39:22Z")
I’m active over at the [Avatar: The Last Airbender](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki) wiki and have busily improving some of the pages. Unfortunately, when the site was first started, a lot of information was being taken from Nickelodeon’s site for the series, and not cited. Character’s ages, to name just one example. Now, there’s a push to reference everything; not that we want pages studded with dozens of cites like Wikipedia, but at least if something’s asserted like “His favorite dessert is cherry tarts” to be able to say where that came from, if it’s not in an episode itself. Unfortunately, the Nick site has been pretty well dismantled. About the only thing there now is showtimes for the present-day reruns. Working on the theory of “Once on the internet, always on the internet” I’ve looked for cached Nick pages from the good old days, but my Google-fu skills are coming up short. Can anybody point me to a site that would have the Nickelodeon site as it existed three to six years ago? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/2 "2011-03-16T04:42:37Z")
Did you check the waybackmachine? [http://waybackmachine.org/](http://waybackmachine.org/) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/3 "2011-03-16T05:11:58Z")
Here’s the avatar page from July, 2006 That’s nearly five years ago. [http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060721032038/http://www.nick.com/all\_nick/tv\_supersites/avatar2/](http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060721032038/http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/avatar2/) I wouldn’t directly link to that information. I don’t imagine wayback wants it’s bandwidth used by links on a wiki. I’d suggest updating your web pages with whatever info you need from the archive. ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/4 "2011-03-16T11:54:31Z")
[Here’s a page](http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/others/archive.shtml) that lists about a dozen other places that cache web pages. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/5 "2011-03-16T14:38:05Z")
The [Resurrect Pages](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages/) Firefox add-on will search 7 different cache sites for you. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/6 "2011-03-17T03:14:25Z")
Thank you all. I wasn’t planning on actually linking to the cache – that would be impolite, but there’s information showing with no clear idea where it came from. A non-linked cite saying _Nickelodeon - 2006_ or whatever would suffice. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/7 "2011-03-17T10:01:58Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Here’s the avatar page from July, 2006 That’s nearly five years ago. > [http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060721032038/http://www.nick.com/all\_nick/tv\_supersites/avatar2/](http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060721032038/http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/avatar2/) > I wouldn’t directly link to that information. I don’t imagine wayback wants it’s bandwidth used by links on a wiki. I’d suggest updating your web pages with whatever info you need from the archive. What is your reasoning that they wouldn’t want to be linked from a wiki? Wikipedia links to the archive as a standard response to a source disappearing. Not very many people actually click on the citations, especially in entertainment articles. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-cached-websites/574872/8 "2011-03-17T14:33:34Z")
I was talking about a main article link. Where you are using someone elses bandwidth to provide the information. I agree a citation at the bottom of the page isn’t a big deal. I wouldn’t think they’d object. As you mentioned, very few people click cites.