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Type of site | Archive |
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| Area served | Worldwide (except China, India[a], and Bahrain) |
| Owner | Internet Archive |
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| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Python |
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Its 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.[2]
Launched on May 10, 1996, the Wayback Machine had saved more than 38.2 billion web pages by the end of 2009. As of November 2024, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 916 billion web pages and well over 100 petabytes of data.[3][4]
- ^ Ong, Thuy (August 9, 2017). "Wayback Machine has been blocked in India". The Verge.
- ^ Kahle, Brewster (November 23, 2005). "Universal Access to all Knowledge". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
- ^ "Internet Archive: Wayback Machine". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on March 13, 2023. The current number of archived pages can be seen at the archive's home page.
- ^ Kahle, Brewster. "A Message from Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle". Internet Archive. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
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