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Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archives webpages (that allow it) and quite often you can lookup broken links in the archive.I often do this by typing "https://web.archive.org/web/" into the browser address bar and then pasting the link I want to lookup, because I know some of the Internet Archive’s URL patterns.Though it’s not really a “search engine”, I realized I could use the search engine shortcuts feature of Firefox to simplify this greatly.Here’s how to create a search shortcut for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button4. enter "Internet Archive" into the Search engine name field (without…