Providing archived web page content in place of current web page content

A computer program product for providing archived content to a user, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer usable storage device having computer usable program code embodied therewith, wherein the computer usable program code is configured to:
• download, by a browser executing on a client machine, a first content of a web page from a server at a network address in response to a first instruction to open the web page at the network address;
• display, by the browser, the first content of the web page;
• provide, by the browser, a selectable feature for archiving one or more user-selected links on the web page in the first content of the web page in response to a user input;
• store, by the browser, the network address of the web page and an archive copy of the one or more user-selected links in the first content of the web page on the client machine;
• receive, by the browser, a second instruction to open the web page when the web page is no longer being displayed;
• download, by the browser, in response to receiving the second instruction to open the web page, a second content of the web page from the server, wherein the second content is different from the first content;
• provide, in a user interface of the browser, a selectable feature to display the second content or the one or more user-selected links in the first content of the web page;
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• respond to an input to the selectable feature to display the second content or the one or more user-selected links in the first content by displaying either the second content of the web page from the archive copy of the second content stored by the browser executing on the client machine or the one or more user-selected links in the first content from the archive copy of the one or more user-selected links in the first content stored by the browser executing on the client machine.

A computer system for displaying archived web pages comprising:

• one or more processors and a computer-readable storage device;
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• a plurality of program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage device for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the plurality of program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to download, on a client machine upon which a browser executes, a first content of a web page from a server at a network address in response to receiving a first instruction to open the web page at the network address;
• program instructions to display the first content of the web page;
• program instructions to provide, by the browser, a selectable feature for archiving one or more user-selected links on the web page in the first content of the web page in response to a user input;
• program instructions to download a second content of the web page from the server in response to receiving a second instruction to open the web page at the network address, wherein the second content is different from the first content;
• program instructions to, in response to a determination that the second content of the web page is different from the first content of the web page, display a prompt in a graphical user interface of the browser, wherein the prompt prompts a user to determine whether to display the second content or the one or more user-selected links in the first content;
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• program instructions to display, responsive to a user response to the prompt, either the one or more user-selected links in the first content from an archive copy of the one or more user-selected links in the first content stored on the client machine by the browser or the second content from an archive copy of the second content stored on the client machine by the browser.