>really inconvenient to use without having javascript enabled
web.archive.org/web/http://example.com/
web.archive.org/save/http://example.com/

wew

on CSS-enabled browsers you'd be annoyed by "saving page" thing not going away. But for accessing page text (95% of time random article perfectly readable without JS) just prefix URL with web.archive.org/web/, works for most pages you'd find in search results.