Internet history at the Wayback Machine

Posted by Vic Laurie
March 31, 2009

The Wayback Machine is an archive of old Web pages. (The name comes from a time-travel machine in the 1960’s TV cartoon series, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, specifically the segment, Peabody’s Improbable History.) The archive is a place to go if you want to see what Google looked like ten years ago. It has Web pages going back to 1996. According to a report at PC World, the archive is opening a new data center and currently has 85 billion Web pages.

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History of technology, Internet topics, Useful Web sites

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