8.0Released

The Wayback Machine's First Crawl

Name: The Wayback Machine's First Crawl
Director: Wendy Hanamura
Released: 2021-08-06T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 8
Cast: Brewster Kahle

2021N/A

Overview

In October of 1996, engineers at the the San Francisco-based Internet Archive launched their first web crawlers, taking snapshots of web pages. At the time, the World Wide Web was only 2.5 terabytes in size.