The Wayback Machine is a free digital archive of the World Wide Web, made available to the public in October 2001 by the Internet Archive, the non-profit library founded in San Francisco by Brewster Kahle. The Internet Archive had been collecting copies of web pages since 1996, and the Wayback Machine lets users enter an address and see how a site looked on past dates. Its name is a reference to the time-travelling WABAC machine in the cartoon Rocky and Bullwinkle. It holds hundreds of billions of saved pages, and it has become a valuable tool for journalists, researchers and courts, as well as for finding pages that have been removed or changed. Users can also ask it to save a page they want to preserve.
Before and after
- from 7 October 2001 to 30 August 2021War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- from 7 October 2001 to 12 November 20012001 uprising in Herat
- from 16 October 2001 to 13 May 2011Premiere of Smallville
- 23 October 2001Release of Grand Theft Auto III
- 29 October 2001Release of Wayback Machine
- from 6 November 2001 to 24 May 2010Premiere of 24
- 9 November 2001Construction of Dolby Theatre
- 16 November 2001Release of Afrikaans Wikipedia
- from 25 November 2001 to 1 December 2001Battle of Qala-i-Jangi
More in Science & technology
- 1945Discovery of promethium
- 1950Discovery of californium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.