The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the internet that allows users to access and view websites as they appeared in the past. It was launched in 2001 by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of the internet. The Wayback Machine uses web crawlers to periodically scan and save snapshots of websites, which are then stored in a massive database.
: The Archive uses automated "crawlers" to traverse the internet, taking snapshots of sites and saving them into WARC (Web ARChive) files. A Living Record Internet Archive-s Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is miraculous, but it is not perfect. Users must be aware of its blind spots. The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of