NymVPN integrating archive.org’s Wayback Machine in-app

Thanks to the hard work of data scientists at archive.org and Nym devs, NymVPN users in Russia will now be able to see what the internet was like before being cut off from the world wide web thanks to Nym's Wayback Machine.

Through an integrated archive in the NymVPN interface, people will be able to browse through the internet’s history before 1 April 2026. Users in censored countries will be able to look back on global conversations, scientific research, and even family photos before their informational world became splintered and siloed.

“Features like Wayback Machine were never part of the NymVPN roadmap, but recent geopolitical events like the banning of VPNs and the shutting down of mobile and internet networks wholesale across countries like Russia and Iran made us realize something important: a VPN is not just a tool of access in the present, but a way to access our human pasts.”

– Harry Halpin, CEO & Founder of Nym

“Disconnecting people from their pasts is one of the greatest crimes against humanity,” Brewster Kahle, the inventor of archive.org’s Wayback Machine noted. “Library and data science is thus much more than archiving: it’s the preservation of the rich ground on which human life flourishes. With Wayback Machine integrated on NymVPN, at least a big segment of that soil can remain available for people.”

Given the developing bans on VPNs in countries like Russia, the UK, France, and even the United States, VPNs might not be able to provide a way forward for accessing global information. But with Wayback Machine on NymVPN, it can at least provide a way back.

The full trove of archive.org’s contents are scheduled to be fully uploaded to NymVPN in Q3 2030. If the Internet’s past has become unavailable to you in the meantime, please talk firmly with your government-controlled ISPs.