Smartial.net offers simple, effective tools for OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence), web research, and digital forensics. Explore the archived internet, recover lost content, and uncover hidden insights using data from the Wayback Machine and other public sources.
If you want to understand how much the web has changed, not just in design, but in purpose and feel, go back to 1999. That year sits at the edge of the dot-com boom, when websites were growing fast, design was chaotic, and nobody was…
Continue reading...Some websites have outlived browsers, hosting companies, and even the people who created them. These digital fossils, often static HTML, blinking text and all, have been online for decades. Many are still active, while others only survive thanks to archive.org. Let’s look at how to…
Continue reading...Websites disappear every day, some by accident, some forever. Hosting bills get missed, platforms shut down, businesses rebrand, or someone forgets to renew a domain. Whatever the reason, if you need access to a vanished site, archive.org is your first and best shot. Here’s how…
Continue reading...Archive.org is a public resource, not a free-for-all. If you’re scraping data from the Wayback Machine, whether for research, archiving, or recovery, it’s important to do it ethically, respectfully, and within limits. This guide explains how to scrape content from archive.org responsibly, using common sense,…
Continue reading...If you have an old website that no longer exists but is partially or fully saved in the Wayback Machine, you can recover it and bring it back to life - even into modern platforms like WordPress or Publii. This article walks through the full…
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