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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.
- The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
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