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Article: INTERNET ARCHIVE LAUNCHES HISTORICAL INTERNET SNAPSHOT ON ITS WAYBACK MACHINE.(University of California at Berkeley's Bancroft Library)
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- Online Libraries & Microcomputers
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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One of the major problems with the Internet is that many of the Web pages and other material are ephemeral in nature. If a Web page is available today, it may not be tomorrow.
In October 2001, The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/), a comprehensive library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, launched the Wayback Machine, a free service allowing people to access and use archived versions of past web pages. For the first time, all members of the public will be able to search and view the Internet Archive*s enormous collection of web sites, dating back to 1996 and comprising over 10 billion web pages.
The service, which ...