2001: The Internet Gets a Memory With the Wayback Machine

Internet Archive website after the launch of Wayback Machine in October 2001. If the future is going to devolve into chaos, then the present ought to be preserved somehow, online. That was part of the thinking behind the Wayback Machine, a public archive of web pages that was launched on October 24, 2001, at a library at the University of California at Berkeley. At the event, Internet Archive…