Making sure your reader sees what you saw on Wikipedia

Dave Winer writes:

It’s valuable, it really is, I point to Wikipedia articles regularly, but always with an implicit caveat. I can’t be sure that the article I point to today, that I believe is accurate today, will be accurate tomorrow.

Ah, but you can.

Click on the history tab, then click on the most recent date. It gives you a URL of the version that is current, so if it changes in the future, you will still see the version that you were looking at today.

It even shows a set of links to navigate revisions.

For example, the current, as of May 25, Diffie Hellman key exchange.

But this is actually a problem for the Internet as a whole. For example, how do I find out what a Google search would have shown me a year ago vs today. Do they keep that kind of data?

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