One of the earliest known pages was archived on May 10, 1996, at 2:08 p.m. The Wayback Machine began archiving cached web pages in 1996. As of 13 March 2023, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 800 billion web pages. Launched on May 10, 1996, the Wayback Machine had saved more than 38.2 million web pages at the end of 2009. 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.
Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go 'back in time' and see how websites looked in the past. The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, California.
