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Wayback Machine

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Wayback Machine
Stylized text saying: "INTERNET ARCHIVE WAYBACK MACHINE". The text is in black, except for "WAYBACK", which is in red.
Type of site
Archiving service
Founded
  • October 25, 2001;
    25 years ago
     (2001-10-25)
Area servedWorldwide[a]
OwnerInternet Archive
URL
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

Wayback Machine is a website that allows users to save URLs of websites into it and view different versions of those websites and how they looked like in the past. It is a time machine of the internet.

The Internet Archive owners Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat created the wayback machine in May 1996 and started it in October 2001.[1][2]

Other websites

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  1. ↑ Except China and North Korea

References

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  1. ↑ "Internet Archive launches WayBack Machine". Online Burma Library. 2001-10-25. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2016-03-13. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. ↑ "The Internet Archive: Building an 'Internet Library'". Internet Archive. 2001-11-30. Archived from the original on November 30, 2001. Retrieved 2016-03-14.