The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show Mr. Peabody and Sherman WABAC machine
What TV show served as inspiration for the Wayback Machine's name? Which characters on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show used a device that allowed them to travel through time? What was the machine used by Mr. Peabody and Sherman named?
The name Wayback Machine was chosen as a droll reference to a plot device in an animated cartoon series, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. In one of the animated cartoon's component segments, Peabody's Improbable History, lead characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman routinely used a time machine called the "WABAC machine" (pronounced way-back) to witness, participate in, and, more often than not, alter famous events in history.
question: What TV show served as inspiration for the Wayback Machine's name?, answer: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show | question: Which characters on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show used a device that allowed them to travel through time?, answer: Mr. Peabody and Sherman | question: What was the machine used by Mr. Peabody and Sherman named?, answer: WABAC machine