Wayback Machine



The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive to provide a browse-able archive of the World Wide Web. Starting in 1996, the Wayback Machine contains more than 362 billion web pages.

It is named after the WABAC machine from the Simon and Mr. Peabody segments of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Saving pages
Pages are saved to the Wayback Machine in a few ways
 * Alexa Internet donates their crawldata to the Internet Archive, which is added to the Wayback Machine.
 * The Internet Archive runs their own crawls to grab popular webpages.
 * The "Save Page Now" feature allows users to save a page to the Wayback Machine. It's also possible to save all outlinks on a page.
 * ArchiveTeam's ArchiveBot is an IRC bot that crawls requested websites and adds the data to the Wayback Machine.
 * Archive-It partners run their own crawls, and their data is added to the Wayback Machine.