The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Featured on CBS Sunday Morning
From CBS News:
The Wayback Machine has been making backups of the world wide web since 1996. Mark Graham, its director, describes it as “a time machine for the web. It does that by going and looking at webpages, hundreds of millions of them every single day right now, and stores them in our servers.”
To date there are nearly 900 billion web pages backed up, though computer scientist Brewster Kahle thinks it’s a cruel joke to call them “pages” considering their short lifespan: “The average life of a webpage is a hundred days before it’s changed or deleted,” he said.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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