Wayback Machine

The logo of the Internet Archive's website archival project called Wayback Machine, used since November 2001.

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organisation based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages.

The Wayback Machine's earliest archives go back at least to 1995, and by the end of 2009, more than 38.2 billion webpages had been saved. As of November 2024, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 916 billion web pages and well over 100 petabytes of data.

Sources

• Read Wayback Machine on Wikipedia
• Official website
• Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn't disappear. PBS Newshour. Archived from the original on 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2024-11-05.