Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Its founders, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages.

For the time machine from Peabody's Improbable History, see Wayback Machine (Peabody's Improbable History).

Wayback Machine
Type of site
Archive
Founded
  • May 10, 1996 (1996-05-10) (private)
  • October 24, 2001 (2001-10-24) (public)
Area servedWorldwide (except China, Russia, India, and Bahrain)
OwnerInternet Archive
URLweb.archive.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive
Written inHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Python

Launched on May 10, 1996, the Wayback Machine had saved more than 38.2 billion web pages at the end of 2009. As of January 3, 2024, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 860 billion web pages and well over 99 petabytes of data.

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