Archives Incoming — Consult the Wayback Machine
We’re restoring the Telegraph Online archives, which extend back to 1992. Our origins predate the World Wide Web: in 1982 we were using Telnet on university mainframes, and by 1987 we operated as a bulletin board system (BBS). We moved onto the Web in the mid-1990s.
In the meantime: many pages from different years were captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Some early material predates the Wayback crawl era and won’t appear there; we’ll publish those items here as we verify and convert them.
What to expect while we restore:
- Progressive publication: restored sections will appear here first with clean URLs and updated navigation.
- Authentic originals: where possible we’ll preserve original filenames and directory references for citation integrity.
- Pre-Wayback material: items older than the Wayback era (and BBS-era documents) will surface here as they are verified and converted.
If you’re citing our work during the transition, you may link either to the Wayback snapshot or to the stable path on this site once republished. We’ll keep redirects and references consistent to avoid link rot.
Last updated: 4 September 2025 (London).