Article: The Wayback Machine: a glimpse of cultural memories from 10 billion Web pages. (online scientist).

Remember the Wayback Machine from Rocky and Bullwinkle fame? This was the time machine that Dr. Knowitall used to show us the real side of what we thought was history. That may have been just a cartoon, but there really is a Wayback Machine. It is a Web interface into the 100 terrabyte archive of the Internet Archive project (www.archive.org). The Internet Archive is a non-profit corporation, located in the Presidio of San Francisco, CA. It was founded in 1996 with the stated goal of creating an `Internet Library.' One of the motivating factors was the transitory nature of the Internet, and the World Wide Web in particular. Nodes are continually connecting and ...

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