The Internet Archive has been fighting for 25 years to keep what's on the web from disappearing – and you can help

Why archive? In 2018, President Donald Trump wrongly claimed via Twitterthat Google had promoted on its homepage President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, but not his own. Archived versions of the Google homepage proved that Google had, in fact, highlighted Trump's State of the Union address in the same manner. Multiple news outlets use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine as the source for fact-checking these types of claims, since screenshots alone can be easily altered...

https://theconversation.com/the-internet-archive-has-been-fighting-for-25-years-to-keep-whats-on-the-web-from-disappearing-and-you-can-help-163867