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How to use archive.today. First, bookmark it as a favorite so you can get to it quickly and easily: http://archive.vn
Next, pick one of the 2 options:
1. Red box “My url is alive and I want to archive its content”.
2. Blue box “I want to search the archive for saved snapshots”.

Red Box/Archive something:
If you’re pretty sure the content has never been archived choose the red box.
Paste the url into the blank space and hit “save” (on the right).
(Sometimes it saves it within 10 seconds. Sometimes you wait in a queue and it’ll take a minute.)
It creates an archived version (actually both a webpage and a screenshot).
Just copy the url of this archived version and share. (Or don’t. But at least it’s archived.)

Blue Box/Looking for content that may have been archived:
Say you click on a link where the content was deleted or it’s behind a paywall. You can copy that url & paste it into the blue box blank space and hit “search” (on the right).
If you’re lucky, someone will have archived it, and the content will show up.
If you’re not so lucky, archive.today will send you to 4 other options where you can search: Google Cache, Archive.Org, WebCite, Megaladon. Very often I can find the content through one of these other options.

And that’s archive.today. It’s really a wonderful resource, and it only gets better with the more people who use it.