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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. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat developed the Wayback…

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Founded
October 25, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-10-25)
Owner
Internet Archive
Area served
Worldwide (except China and North Korea)
Commercial
No
Current status
Active
Registration
Optional

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Wayback Machine

Nodes102
Edges101
Triples161
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019608
Components1

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Wayback Machine

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related to Technical information · 24
Wayback Machine → Alexa, Always Online, American, Archive, Archive Team, Archive-It, Cloudflare, Common Crawl, Crawls, For, Gopher, In September, Internet, Internet Archive, Internet Memory Foundation, NARA, Netnews, Sloan Foundation, The, The Wayback Machine's
related to Suzanne Shell · 20
Wayback Machine → Activist Suzanne Shell, California, Colorado, December, District, Internet Archive, Internet Archive's, January, Ms, Northern District, On April, On February, Shell, Shell's, Suzanne Shell, The Internet Archive, United States District Court, US, We, Web
related to Limitations · 14
Wayback Machine → Archive Team, As, Due, Flash, HTML, In, Its, JavaScript, July, Site Search, The Wayback Machine, The Wayback Machine's, This, YouTube
related to history · 13
Wayback Machine → BBC, Brewster Kahle, Bruce Gilliat, California, Gilliat, Internet, Internet Archive, Kahle, March, October, San Francisco, The, The Internet Archive
related to Healthcare Advocates, Inc. · 12
Wayback Machine → Abuse Act, Archive, Archive's Wayback Machine, Computer Fraud, DMCA, Frailey, Harding Earley Follmer, Healthcare Advocates, In, Internet Archive, The, Wayback
related to Website exclusion policy · 11
Wayback Machine → April, Citing, Historically, In, Internet Archive, It, Sometimes, The Internet Archive, We, Web, Website
related to Uses · 8
Wayback Machine → As, From, India, Internet's, Researchers, Social, Wayback Machine's, When
related to Daniel Davydiuk · 7
Wayback Machine → Between, Canada, Daniel Davydiuk, DMCA, Federal Court, The, Wayback Machine's
related to Legal status · 7
Wayback Machine → Archive, FAQ, In Europe, Internet Archive, Only, Some, The
related to Storage capacity and growth · 7
Wayback Machine → As, In, Internet Archive, June, PetaBox, TB, The

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wayback archive machine internet web website archived pages site data page content time october archives archiving websites access crawl copyright

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Wayback MachineArea servedWorldwide (except China and North Korea)1.00infobox
Wayback MachineCommercialNo1.00infobox
Wayback MachineCurrent statusActive1.00infobox
Wayback MachineFoundedOctober 25, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-10-25)1.00infobox
Wayback MachineOwnerInternet Archive1.00infobox
Wayback MachineRegistrationOptional1.00infobox
Wayback MachineType of siteArchiving service1.00infobox
Wayback MachineURLweb.archive.org1.00infobox
Wayback MachineWritten inHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Python1.00infobox
Wayback Machineis adigital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive0.90text
picturesinstance ofEmbedded objects0.80text
videosinstance ofEmbedded objects0.80text

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