Wayback Machine: Perbezaan antara semakan

Internet Archive melancarkan Wayback Machine pada Oktober 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/200110/msg00079.html|title=Internet Archive launches WayBack Machine|date=2001-10-25|work=Online Burma Library|accessdate=2016-03-13|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324102039/http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/200110/msg00079.html|archivedate=2016-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/|title=The Internet Archive: Building an 'Internet Library'|date=2001-11-30|work=[[Internet Archive]]|accessdate=2016-03-14|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20011130142035/https://archive.org/|archivedate=November 30, 2001}}</ref> Ia dibentuk oleh Brewster Kahle dan Bruce Gilliat, dan dikekalkan dengan kandungan dari [[Alexa Internet]]. Perkhidmatan ini membolehkan pengguna melihat versi laman web yang diarkibkan sepanjang masa, yang arkib memanggil "indeks tiga dimensi".

Maklumat telah disimpan pada pita digital selama lima tahun, dengan Kahle kadang-kadang membenarkan para penyelidik dan saintis memasuki pangkalan data.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Web-site-takes-you-way-back-in-Internet-history-1070534.php|title=Web site takes you way back in Internet history|last=Cook|first=John|date=November 1, 2001|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|accessdate=15 August 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205508/http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Web-site-takes-you-way-back-in-Internet-history-1070534.php|archivedate=12 August 2014|deadurl=no}}</ref> Apabila arkib mencapai ulang tahun kelima, pada tahun 2001, ia telah diumumkan dan dibuka kepada orang ramai dalam satu majlis di [[Universiti California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2001/10/wayback-goes-way-back-on-web/|title=Wayback Goes Way Back on Web|date=October 28, 2001|work=Wired|accessdate=October 16, 2017|author=|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016225914/https://www.wired.com/2001/10/wayback-goes-way-back-on-web/|archivedate=October 16, 2017|df=}}</ref>

Nama ''Wayback Machine'' telah dipilih sebagai rujukan kepada mesin "WABAC machine", peranti perjalanan masa yang digunakan oleh watak Encik Peabody dan Sherman dalam The Rocky dan Bullwinkle Show, kartun animasi.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2002/tc20020228_1080.htm|title=A Library as Big as the World|last=Green|first=Heather|date=February 28, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220074306/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2002/tc20020228_1080.htm|archive-date=20 December 2011|publisher=BusinessWeek}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/business/responsible-party-brewster-kahle-a-library-of-the-web-on-the-web.html|title=RESPONSIBLE PARTY – BREWSTER KAHLE; A Library Of the Web, On the Web|last=TONG|first=JUDY|date=September 8, 2002|newspaper=New York Times|accessdate=15 August 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220181725/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/business/responsible-party-brewster-kahle-a-library-of-the-web-on-the-web.html|archivedate=20 February 2011|deadurl=no}}</ref> Dalam salah satu segmen komponen kartun animasi, ''Peabody's Improbable History'', watak-wataknya menggunakan mesin untuk menyaksikan, mengambil bahagian dalam, dan, lebih kerap daripada tidak, mengubah peristiwa yang terkenal dalam sejarah.