Read deleted pages Archives work because removal is a decision made after publication. The beginner's mistake is treating the Wayback Machine as a website you browse: the calendar UI shows one page at a time, while the CDX API enumerates every URL the archive ever saw under a host, including paths nobody remembers. Which archive first | Situation | Go to | Why | |---|---|---| | A URL that 404s now | Wayback, then archive.today | Different corpora, different removal pressure | | "What did this site say before X" | Wayback CDX with | Gives the dates content changed, not every capture | | A JS-h…