If you are trying to browse the history of the web this morning, you are likely running into a wall. The Internet Archive and its popular Wayback Machine appear to be down for many users, displaying a “temporarily offline” warning that directs people to social media for updates.
Attempts to access web.archive.org or the main archive.org site are currently failing for a significant number of users. Instead of the usual search bar or calendar view of captured pages, visitors are being greeted by a stark message:
"Internet Archive services are temporarily offline. Please check our official accounts, including Twitter/X, Bluesky or Mastodon for the latest information. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
This latest outage comes just days after a massive internet-wide disruption on November 18, 2025, involving Cloudflare, which took down services for millions of users globally. While connection to many sites was restored within hours of that event, the Internet Archive appears to be suffering from lingering instability or a fresh set of issues today, November 20.
The timing is particularly unfortunate. The non-profit recently celebrated a monumental milestone, announcing it had archived its one trillionth web page.
However, the platform has battled repeated stability issues throughout late 2024 and 2025, often due to aggressive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. In October 2024, a major breach and subsequent attacks took the site offline for days, with founder Brewster Kahle using X (formerly Twitter) to provide real-time updates on their defenses.
If you need to access an old version of a site right now, you might be out of luck until engineers can restore the servers. As always with the Internet Archive, patience is key, especially since they are a non-profit library, not a big tech giant, often fighting to keep the lights on against massive traffic spikes and bad actors.
i hope they fix it by today or tomorrow