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        the Wayback MachineThe Internet Archive Introduces a Next Generation LibraryWednesday, October 24, 2001. 6:30 p.m.

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                      INTERNET ARCHIVE LAUNCHES WAYBACK MACHINE

                      Free Service Enables Users to Access Archived Versions

                        of Web Sites Dating from 1996

                      SAN FRANCISCO (October 24, 2001) - The Internet Archive, 

                        a comprehensive library of Internet sites and other cultural 

                        artifacts in digital form, today launched the Wayback 

                        Machine, a free service allowing people to access and 

                        use archived versions of past web pages. For the first 

                        time, all members of the public will be able to search 

                        and view the Internet Archive's enormous collection of 

                        web sites, dating back to 1996 and comprising over 10 

                        billion web pages.

                      The service, which was unveiled tonight at a ceremony 

                        at the University of California at Berkeley's Bancroft 

                        Library, is available at web.archive.org. To use the Wayback 

                        Machine, visitors simply type in a URL in the provided 

                        search box, select a date, and then begin surfing on an 

                        archived version of the web.

                      "In 1996, we created the Internet Archive because 

                        we felt it was critical to preserve a permanent record 

                        of this historically significant new medium for the public," 

                        said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. "To 

                        date, the Archive has catalogued over ten billion web 

                        pages that might otherwise have been lost, giving us both 

                        a record of the origins and evolution of the Internet, 

                        as well as snapshots of our society as a whole around 

                        the turn of the century. For our fifth anniversary, we 

                        are opening up the Archive to the public by launching 

                        the Wayback Machine, so that everyone can travel back 

                        in time and view the Internet as it was in the past-and 

                        as it matures into the future."

                      Since 1996, when the Internet Archive was founded in 

                        order to create a permanent collection of digital material 

                        for the public, the Internet Archive has been storing 

                        and recording web pages. Collaborating with institutions 

                        including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian 

                        Institution, the Internet Archive's comprehensive library 

                        of the Web's digital past comprises 100 terabytes of data 

                        and is growing at a rate of 10 terabytes per month, eclipsing 

                        the amount of data contained in every library in the world 

                        including the Library of Congress, and making it the largest 

                        known database in existence.

                      "By keeping an historical record of what Web sites 

                        looked like and how they evolved over time, the Internet 

                        Archive is an invaluable resource for journalism educators, 

                        academic researchers and people who just want to see how 

                        the media and our culture marked important historical 

                        events," said Paul Grabowicz, Director of the New 

                        Media Program and Assistant Dean at Northgate UC Berkeley 

                        Graduate School of Journalism. "Now, thanks to the 

                        Archive's new Wayback Machine, everyone has the opportunity 

                        to revisit, study and enjoy these important 'first drafts 

                        of history'."

                      About the Internet Archive

                      The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 in order to 

                        build a digital library and other cultural artifacts in 

                        digital form, with the purpose of offering permanent and 

                        free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and 

                        the general public. The Archive holds a collection of 

                        archived web pages, dating from 1996 and comprising 100 

                        terabytes. Since 1999, the Archive has expanded its collections 

                        to include: a September 11 television and online catalog; 

                        an Election 2000 online library; archived movies from 

                        1903-1973; and other documents. Located in San Francisco, 

                        the Archive is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit whose benefactors 

                        include Alexa Internet, AT&T Research, Compaq, the 

                        Kahle/Austin Foundation, Prelinger Archives, Quantum DLT, 

                        Xerox PARC, the Library of Congress, and the National 

                        Science Foundation.


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