# How do I get a cached webpage?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 26, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-a-cached-webpage/555130 "2010-09-26T19:24:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-a-cached-webpage/555130/1 "2010-09-26T19:24:23Z")

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This web address: [http://learn.sdstate.edu/nursing/Medication.html](http://learn.sdstate.edu/nursing/Medication.html) leads me to a big nowhere, but isn’t there some way I can find a cached copy of what used to be there? It looks like just what I’m looking for. (Or maybe it’s not, but I’d like to get a peek at it and see.)

I found the apparently outdated link at another site.

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**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-a-cached-webpage/555130/2 "2010-09-26T19:31:39Z")

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The Wayback Machine is what you want: [http://web.archive.org/web/\*/http://learn.sdstate.edu/nursing/Medication.html](http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://learn.sdstate.edu/nursing/Medication.html)

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-a-cached-webpage/555130/3 "2010-09-26T19:39:37Z")

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Thank you!