Yes, mostly, and yes.

Bookmark this page: https://web.archive.org/web/

10% of the time you will find doors slammed in your face when the website owner can't monetarise tracking you, but you can usually grab a recent copy of the content you needed by putting the above URL in front of the URL you want.

Like so:

https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.CNN.com

This also gets you past some nag windows and paywalls, which is a nice bonus :-D