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Article: The Wayback Machine. (Online Spotlight).
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When I was growing up, the only cartoons we were allowed to watch were those my mother judged to be nonviolent. Fortunately, the "Rocky & Bullwinkle Show" made the cut, and I grew up being exposed to adult humor at its best, including Peabody's Improbable History--4-minute cartoons featuring the brainiac dog Mr. Peabody "and his boy, Sherman." Each episode involved time travel with Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine.
We still have a version of the Wayback Machine, now brought to you by Alexa Internet since October 2001. In its most basic form, the Wayback Machine is a tool for viewing Web pages retained in the Internet Archive. Head over to http://web.archive.org, ...