The Internet Archive is offline following a power failure, taking down access to the main site and its Wayback Machine.
It's hard to overstate this site's importance. It has preserved over 1 trillion web pages, creating a permanent history for an web that constantly deletes its own past. Websites vanish, companies wipe pages, governments edit documents, politicians delete statements, news outlets alter stories, and social posts disappear.
The Wayback Machine lets journalists, researchers, lawyers, OSINT analysts, and the public retrieve earlier versions to verify what was published at any given time.
Without independent archives, whoever controls a website controls its history. The Internet Archive prevents that, making it one of the most vital public resources online. Hope it's back up soon.