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Wayback Machine

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Logo of the Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine is a website that allows users to save URLs of websites into it and view different versions of those websites and how they looked like in the past. It is a time machine of the internet.

History[change | change source]

The Internet Archive owners Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat created the wayback machine in May 1996 and started it in October 2001.[1][2]

References[change | change source]

  1. "Internet Archive launches WayBack Machine". Online Burma Library. 2001-10-25. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  2. "The Internet Archive: Building an 'Internet Library'". Internet Archive. 2001-11-30. Archived from the original on November 30, 2001. Retrieved 2016-03-14.