Sometimes, by going to (previously existing) page, we get 404 error - page not found. This page has been deleted, the site is not accessible, etc., but how to view a deleted page? I will try to answer this question and offer four ready-made options for solving this problem.

Option 1: Browser Offline Mode

To save traffic and increase page loading speed, browsers use a cache. What is cache? Cache (from English cache) — disk space on a computer allocated for temporary storage of files, which include web pages.

So try viewing the deleted page from your browser cache. To do this, go to offline mode.

Note: Offline browsing is only possible if the user has visited the page before and it has not yet been removed from the cache.

How to enable offline browser mode?

For Google Chrome, Yandex browser etc., offline mode is available only as an experiment. Enable it on the page: chrome://flags/ - find “Offline cache mode” there and click the link “ Turn on».

Turn offline mode on or off in the Google Chrome browser

IN Firefox(29 and older) open menu (button with three lines) and click " Development" (wrench), and then the item " Work autonomously».

Turn offline mode on or off in Firefox

IN Opera Click the “Opera” button, find the “ Settings", and then click the item " Work autonomously».

How to enable or disable offline mode in Opera?

IN Internet Explorer- press the Alt button, (in the menu that appears) select " File" and click the menu item " Offline mode».

How to disable offline mode in Internet Explorer 11?

Let me clarify - in IE 11 The developers have removed the offline mode switch. The question arises - How to disable offline mode in Internet Explorer 11? Doing the opposite will not work, reset your browser settings.

To do this, close running applications, including the browser. Press the key combination Win + R and (in the “Run” window that opens) enter: inetcpl.cpl, press the Enter button. In the "Internet Properties" window that opens, go to the "Internet" tab. Additionally" On the tab that opens, find and click the button “ Restore advanced settings", and then the appeared button " Reset..." In the confirmation window, check the box " Remove personal settings" and click the " Reset».

Option 2: copies of pages in search engines

Earlier I told you that search engine users don’t need to go to sites - just look at a copy of the page in a search engine, and this is a good way to solve our problem.

IN Google— use the info: operator, specifying the desired URL. Example:

IN Yandex— use the url: operator, specifying the desired URL. Example:

Hover your mouse over the (green) URL in the snippet and click the link that appears " copy».

The problem is that search engines only store the last indexed copy of the page. If a page is deleted, over time it will become unavailable in search engines.

Option 3: WayBack Machine

The WayBack Machine service is an Internet archive that contains the history of the existence of sites.

Viewing site history on the WayBack Machine

Enter the desired URL, and the service will try to find a copy of the specified page in its database with a date reference. But the service does not index all pages and sites.

Option 4: Archive.today

A simple and (unfortunately) passive service for creating copies of web pages is Archive.today. You can access a deleted page if it was copied by another user to the service archive. To do this, enter the URL in the first (red) form and click the " submit url».

After that, try to find the page using the second (blue) form.

I recommend! I thought: What should I do if the page is not deleted? It happens that it is simply impossible to access the site. Found an article Victor Tomilin, which is called “I can’t access the site” - where the author not only describes 4 ways to solve the problem, but also recorded a visual video.

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There are situations when you have to delete an account that has already gained popularity among subscribers and leave a lot of information there, including photos, music, contacts, etc. At the time of deletion, it seems that the information is still saved somewhere, but when the search begins, it turns out that the desired contact or photo remains on the deleted page. Then the question arises of how to view a deleted VK page, this will be discussed in the article.

7 months after deleting a page, the data is stored only in the site’s archive memory. By going to the page of interest using the old link, you will not be able to see anything other than the inscription “page has been deleted and is unavailable.” Only the history of messages with a deleted profile is saved (if the interlocutor’s account is not deleted). There are 4 ways to view a deleted VKontakte page, which will be discussed further.

Method 1: Yandex Search

The advantage of any search engine is saving a remote copy of a website and page on a social network. Among all the services that will be discussed, Yandex does the best job of displaying a saved page mirror. To view a page through a search engine, you need to perform a few simple mouse manipulations:

Method 2: Google Search

A simple way to view deleted VK pages, just like its predecessor, allows you to view a copy of the page that was saved to the search engine archive. The method consists of the following steps:

• opening the main page of the search engine;
• a link to a remote account copied from VK is inserted into the address bar and the search button is pressed;
• If you enter all the data correctly, the first result will be the desired page.

Method 3: Web Archive

A method that allows you to find a deleted account (if privacy settings allow searching for a page on the Internet) in a web archive. Viewing the saved copy is carried out in a few simple mouse clicks according to the instructions.

1. Go to the archive website; to do this, enter a query on the search page.
2. Copy the page address from the social network.
3. Paste the link of the desired page into the archive search window.
4. After confirmation, there are two options for displaying information: an error (if the page is hidden by privacy settings), and a schedule for the availability of viewing the saved copy.
5. In the displayed chart, select the year of interest; after confirmation, the page is updated and you can select viewing dates.
6. After selecting a date, the person’s deleted account opens in the form in which it was last saved.

Method 4: Browser Cache

You can find a saved copy of the page (if it was recently deleted) and the browser cache has not been cleared using the search engine through which you entered the page. Depending on the browser used, the paths to access the search engine cache will differ only in the name and use of slashers. Examples of opening the cache of popular browsers:

Having completed the manipulations, we gain access to all saved files and pages in the cache.

How to view friends of a deleted page

You will be able to view the list of friends from a deleted account after performing the manipulations described above. The list will be available if they are not hidden by privacy settings; contacts that are viewable only from a remote account will not be displayed in the friend feed.

How to view photos from a deleted profile

After opening a copy of the page, most of the links, photos and posts remain active (depending on how old the deleted page is). You will be able to view photos only from those albums that are available for public viewing by other users and searchable via the Internet.

Additional Information

It is impossible to download files from a remote page without the help of third-party resources and special scripts. When you try to download directly, a message may appear stating that the files have been deleted.

Services and tricks with which you can find EVERYTHING.

Why is this needed: Did you briefly read the article in the morning and decided to take a closer look in the evening, but it’s not on the website? A few years ago you visited a useful site, today you remembered it, but there’s nothing left on the same domain? This has happened to each of us. But there is a way out.

Everything that goes on the Internet is stored there forever. If some information is posted on the Internet for at least a couple of days, there is a high probability that it has become the property of the collective mind. And you will be able to reach her.

Let's talk about simple and publicly available ways to find sites and pages that have been deleted for some reason.

1. Google cache that remembers everything

Google specifically stores the text of all web pages so that people can view them if the site is unavailable. To view the version of the page from the Google cache, type in the address bar:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.site/

Where http://www.site/ must be replaced with the address of the site you are looking for.

2. Web-archive, which contains the entire history of the Internet

6. Archive.is, for your own cache

If you need to save some web page, you can do this on archive.is without registration and SMS. There is also a global search for all versions of pages ever saved by users of the service..

7. Caches of other search engines, you never know

If Google, Baidu and Yandex did not manage to save anything sensible, but a copy of the page is really needed, then we go to seacrhenginelist.com, go through the search engines and hope for the best (so that some bot visits the site at the right time).

8. Browser cache when all else fails

You can’t view the entire page this way, but images and scripts from some sites are stored on your computer for a certain period of time. They can be used to search for information. For example, using a picture from the instructions, you can find a similar one on another site. Briefly about the approach to viewing cache files in different browsers:

Safari

Looking for files in a folder ~/Library/Caches/Safari.

Google Chrome

In the address bar we type chrome://cache

Opera

In the address bar we type opera://cache

Mozilla Firefox

Type in the address bar about:cache and find on it the path to the directory with the cache files.

9. Trying to download the page file directly from the server

We go to whoishostingthis.com and find out the address of the server on which the site is or was located:

After that, open the terminal and using the command curl trying to download the required page:

What to do if nothing helps at all

If none of the methods yielded results, and you desperately need to find the deleted page, then all that remains is to contact the site owner and shake out the treasured information from him. First, you can get through the contacts associated with the site on emailhunter.com:

Learn to use the Internet archive and Google and Yandex search tools

For the first time about the existence Internet Archive I found out about five years ago after reading Evgeniy Yushchuk’s book about competitive intelligence.

Turns out in the USA since 1996 all more or less serious Internet sites, including Runet.

This is done to ensure free access scientists, researchers and everyone, to which You can join today too, dear reader.

Texts, audio recordings, films, software and web pages are stored there.
The volumes are unimaginable. Terrabytes.

The resource cooperates with major US scientific institutions, for example, Library of Congress and etc.

By the way, about birds. I mean about Twitter.

According to some media reports, since last year Americans for history record all messages on Twitter. Therefore, be more modest - tweet more carefully, do not write any nonsense there. Otherwise you'll go down in history. Remember the saying " What is written with a pen cannot be cut out with an ax". If you want to get rid of something not so tweeted, you won’t be able to. Everything will be in the American archive. Who knows - then you won’t be ashamed in front of your children and grandchildren?

You're probably asking why I remembered this now?

But because quite recently, on March 7, 2012, Rossiyskaya Gazeta also wrote about the Internet archive.
The article is called "Forward to the past" and talks about several resources for researching veteran sites or abandoned, forgotten, abandoned resources.
And also about how you can “restore” disappeared pages using Google(link " saved copy") or Yandex(link " copy").

If you watch the video, you will find out what Yandex and Google were like back in 1998. Sami learn to "travel the Ancient Internet" using the example of one of the most authoritative sites on the Runet.
Which one?
You'll find out later when you watch the first video.

How to read a non-existent page (404 error)?

In this video you will learn how to read something that no longer exists.
If while browsing the Internet you see a message "the requested page does not exist" or "Error 404", then don't be upset.
It doesn't exist, but it existed. Using a copy saved by Google, you can find out what was there before.

Good luck to you in understanding the history of the Ancient Internet and recent “secrets”.
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Many users of the social network VKontakte, due to one or another circumstance, were forced to delete their account. As a result, especially if the profile was quite popular, such a topic as viewing deactivated personal pages becomes relevant.

Today, to view deactivated VKontakte accounts, you will one way or another need to turn to third-party tools. In any possible case, you will also need access to the remote page, namely the user ID.

Within the resource in question, the account can be permanently deleted within 7 months from the date of deactivation. In this case, some of the methods may not work, since the VKontakte profile itself will disappear from the network.

In addition to the above, it is important to note such an aspect as the lifespan of VK pages in various search engines. That is, over a certain period of time, the deleted profile will leave all possible resources in the database of which it was ever entered in order to simplify user search.

Accounts whose privacy settings have been set to block search engines, unfortunately, cannot be viewed, since in this case the profile is not saved on other sites.

Method 1: Yandex Search

First of all, it is extremely important to touch upon such a feature of search engines as automatically saving a copy of the page. Thanks to this feature, you can easily open the user’s page and view the information you are interested in by performing a few simple steps.

Some other search engines, just like Yandex, store data about VK users in their own database. However, Yandex specifically works better than any other similar resource with requests on VKontakte.

1. Open the official website of the Yandex search engine in any convenient browser using the special link.



2. In the main text field on the open site, insert the identifier of the remote VKontakte page.



3. Press the key "Enter" on the keyboard or use the button "Find" on the right side of the search field.



4. Note that you can completely remove the introductory part of the URL used, leaving only the account ID and domain name of the VK site.



5. Among the search results, if viewing is possible, the first post will be the wanted personal profile.



6. If you attempt to access the page by directly following the link provided, you will be directed to a notification that your account has been deleted.



7. To open a previously saved version of your account, next to the shortened link of the desired result, click on the arrow pointing down.



8. In the drop-down list, select "Saved Copy".



9. Now you will be presented with the page of the desired user in the form in which it was last available to the Yandex search engine.

Please note that most of the links and various functional elements are in working order. However, this remark is relevant only when the profile is in a deactivated state for a short period of time.

This is where you can finish with this method, since if all the conditions have been met, you will be able to find information about the deleted VK user page without any problems.

Method 2: Google Search

This method, unlike the first, is the simplest in terms of viewing once deleted user profiles. However, despite its simplicity, it has many disadvantages, which boil down to the fact that you do not have the opportunity to view detailed information about the user.

In the Google search engine, as well as in the case of Yandex, discussed above, you can view a once automatically saved copy of the page.

Taking into account the above, VKontakte profiles, after deletion, are quickly excluded from search queries, which is why you will not be able to see the information at any convenient time. This method will be most appropriate only in situations where the person who deleted the page still has a basic recovery opportunity within 7 months.

Now you can finish working with search engines in order to view ever deleted accounts and move on to a more radical method.

Method 3: Web Archive

This method, like the previous one, requires that the user account is not hidden by special privacy settings. This is especially true for search engines, since almost any search on third-party sites has a connection with them.

This method may well be applicable not only to VK, but also to some other social networks.

If the user account fully meets the requirements, you can proceed to use a special service designed to view sites in a previously saved state. It is also important to take into account that not all social pages. VKontakte networks have a previously saved copy.

To start viewing the page, you first need to select the year of interest in the appropriate block.

Now, after automatic updating, scroll down the page a little lower and use the calendar to select the exact date that marked this or that version of the account.

Notice that each number highlight has its own meaning:

Having understood the main nuances, select any date of interest, hover your mouse cursor over it, and in the drop-down list, click on the link in accordance with the desired time period.

After following the suggested recommendations, a user page will open inside the Internet Archive site, having the same appearance as it had at the time it was saved in the database.

If you used a copy that was saved before the global update of the VKontakte site, then the early VK interface will be provided for your use.

Please note that literally all elements on the page are active. That is, you, for example, can disclose detailed information without any problems.

Using the service, you are viewing accounts on behalf of an unregistered user. However, you cannot log in and, for example, comment on any post.

The main disadvantage of this service is that it displays VK user profiles in English due to the regional settings of the service.

In conclusion to this method, it is important to pay attention to the fact that almost all links in the Internet archive are active and they lead to the corresponding page saved in exactly the same time period. In this regard, you should always remember that not all accounts on the VKontakte social network have suitable copies in the web archive.