Wayback Machine helps you find missing webpages

Luckily, there's a way to find lost websites. — dpa

Websites change fairly frequently and sometimes they've disappeared when you go looking for them. So what can you do when you get a 404 error? Luckily, there's a way to find lost websites.

The open-source desktop browser Brave allows you to access an archived version of the page you are looking for.

To do this it works with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine project, which has been continuously archiving websites from all over the world since the 1990s.

You can also go directly to Waybackmachine.org and there are Internet Archive add-ons for Firefox, Safari and Chrome that will redirect to the Wayback Machine if you get a 404 error on a page that has been archived.

The non-profit Internet Archive not only stores webpages, but pretty much everything in the digital cultural assets area: music, films, software, scanned books, games, even malware from the 1980s and 1990s.

The archive's goal is to preserve everything and make it freely accessible. – dpa