It was officially released to the public in October 2001 with an initial index of 10 billion pages.
Google recently removed the “Cached” links from search results, making the Wayback Machine the only large-scale, public web archive. That puts a huge target on the IA’s back — and makes its survival critical. internet archive wayback machine
The Internet Archive was founded in by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat with the ambitious goal of providing "universal access to all knowledge". It was officially released to the public in
Imagine a library where, instead of books, the shelves are filled with snapshots of the entire internet. A place where you can revisit a website from 1999, read a news article that was deleted yesterday, or verify what a politician’s homepage looked like a decade ago. The Internet Archive was founded in by Brewster
: Official add-ons for Chrome , Safari, and Firefox can automatically alert you if a page is missing and offer an archived version [28, 34]. Analysis & Performance Limitation Research Utility