Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine
Stylized text saying: "INTERNET ARCHIVE WAYBACK MACHINE". The text is in black, except for "WAYBACK", which is in red.
Type of site
Archiving service
Founded
  • October 25, 2001;
    25 years ago     (2001-10-25)
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerInternet Archive
URL
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

Wayback Machine is a website that allows users to save URLs of websites into it and view different versions of those websites and how they looked like in the past. It is a time machine of the internet.

History

The Internet Archive owners Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat created the wayback machine in May 1996 and started it in October 2001.