The Wayback Machine Firefox Add-on
Running into URLs that are broken or return a 404 Not Found error happens pretty regularly for me, especially if the URL is related to academia. I also know about the Internet Archive or Wayback Machine (http://archive.org/) , a non-profit organization that stores snapshots of the internet (well, parts of it), on regularly basis. Today, I finally put one and one together and looked for a Firefox addon to easily search the Wayback Machine for the broken URL. The search turned up a bunch of results but updating/tuning the search eventually led me to what I think is the official Firefox addon by the Internet Archive ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/ ).