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Wayback Machine, all the time. Very useful if a reference link on Wikipedia is dead (why do websites just remove articles like that? It drives me nuts). Unfortunately it doesn't handle JavaScript very well, rendering some functions of websites unusable, or breaking images. I particularly remember browsing the website for Al Jazeera Children's Channel (which is jcctv.net by the way), they had a theme switcher which unfortunately uses JS, so... I'm stuck with the blue underwater theme for some reason. And yes, Al Jazeera did do lots of non-news related stuff at one point.
The Internet Archive can be useful as well if you're looking for a very niche thing that isn't really available elsewhere. I usually use it for software, but at one point I tried searching it for an archive of Club Penguin's game files. They also have lots of public domain stuff if you're interested in that (friendly reminder: Steamboat Willie is part of it now).