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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive, founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, is dedicated to maintaining an archive[?] of the Internet. Their collections include snapshots of the World Wide Web and Usenet.

The Archive also maintains "The Wayback Machine" which, given a URL, allows the user to see versions of the corresponding web page over time. Examples of the Wayback Machine's archives:

  • Amazon (http://web.archive.org/web/%2A/www.amazon.com),
  • Microsoft (http://web.archive.org/web/%2A/www.microsoft.com) and the
  • BBC (http://web.archive.org/web/%2A/news.bbc.co.uk).

The Archive's total collection, as of 2003, is around 100 terabytes of data.

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