#Redacted stamp archive#

#Redacted stamp archive#

Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California, in October 2001, primarily to address the problem of web content vanishing whenever it gets changed or when a website is shut down. One of the earliest known pages was saved on at 2:42 PM. The Wayback Machine began archiving cached web pages in 1996. In 1996, Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, and Bruce Gilliat, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), developed the Wayback Machine as a tool for creating a universally accessible digital library, supporting the Internet Archive's mission of universal access to all knowledge. More than one million web pages are added daily.

Launched on May 10, 1996, the Wayback Machine had more than 38.2 million records at the end of 2009.

Its founders, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, developed the Wayback Machine to provide 'universal access to all knowledge' by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages.

Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go 'back in time' and see how websites looked in the past. The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, California.