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Article: Remembrance of Sites Past: The Wayback Machine holds the history of the Web.(Focus on Technology)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- November 12, 2001
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Once upon a time on the web, novelty abounded. And to be honest, it didn't take much to impress somebody. In the mid-'90s thousands of surfers were transfixed by the sight (site?) of a coffee machine in a faculty room at Cambridge University--word had seeped out that a camera had been set up to monitor the pot and folks all over the world checked it out daily on their newly downloaded Mosaic browsers. Simply because it was there. Now you can relive those unjaded days--and browse the entire history of the amazing World Wide Web--with the Wayback Machine (archive.org), drawing on the world's biggest database, the Internet Archive.
Named after the time-traveling ...
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... ... Internet was short-lived, you haven't yet seen the Wayback Machine. It's an attempt to archive the entire Web, providing ... sites to see what was served up in that moment in time. The Wayback Machine is part of the Internet Archive, which houses the world ...
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