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Mementos are prior versions of web pages cached by web crawlers and stored in web archives. The post explains how to use the Wayback Machine to get back in time and retrieve prior states of a given web resource.

Quoting websites is a hassle for several reasons: Firstly, web pages are not available anymore. Secondly, web pages have moved so that the URL is not valid anymore. Thirdly, they change their content so that the cited reference is not correct anymore. This article presents some strategies and tools to bypass the challenges mentioned above.