Wayback Machine
Digital archive by the Internet Archive
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| November 4 2024 | The Internet Archive returned to full functionality, ending the read-only mode period. |
| October 14 2024 | The Internet Archive website returned online but remained in read-only mode, with the 'Save Page Now' feature disabled. |
| October 9 2024 | The Internet Archive website went down due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. |
| September 2024 | The Internet Archive suffered a data breach that exposed 31 million records containing personal information, including email addresses and hashed passwords. |
| May 2021 | For Internet Archive's 25th anniversary, the Wayback Machine introduced the 'Wayforward Machine', a tool allowing users to 'travel to the Internet in 2046, where knowledge is under siege'. |
| October 30 2020 | The Wayback Machine began fact-checking content. |
| September 2020 | Internet Archive announced a partnership with Cloudflare to automatically index websites served via its 'Always Online' services. |
| October 2019 | Internet Archive implemented a usage limit of 15 archival requests and retrievals per minute for Wayback Machine users. |
| 2018 | Archives of stalkerware application FlexiSpy's website were removed from the Wayback Machine after the company reportedly contacted the Internet Archive. |
| September 2018 | The Wayback Machine contained over 25 petabytes of data. |
| March 2017 | The March for Science originated from a Reddit discussion after someone discovered deleted climate change references on the White House website using the Wayback Machine. |
| 2016 | A Daily Beast article outing gay Olympian athletes was removed from both the original website and the Internet Archive to protect the athletes' safety. |
| 2016 | Russian commercial lobbyists sued the Internet Archive on copyright grounds, though the website remained available. |
| October 2016 | A change in how web pages are counted was announced, resulting in a decrease of archived page counts by excluding embedded objects like pictures, videos, and style sheets. |
| July 2016 | The Wayback Machine reportedly contained around 15 petabytes of data. |
| July 11 2016 | Wide Crawl Number 13 completed, which had been ongoing for over 18 months. |
| 2015 | The Internet Archive was blocked in Russia, reportedly for hosting a Jihad outreach video. |
| March 2015 | Security researchers became aware of the threat posed by the Wayback Machine's unintentional hosting of malicious binaries from archived sites. |
| January 9 2015 | Wide Crawl Number 13 started, a comprehensive web archiving process. |
| 2014 | An archived social media page of Igor Girkin revealed his post about shooting down an aircraft, which was later discovered to be Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, demonstrating the Wayback Machine's role in holding individuals accountable. |
| December 2014 | The Wayback Machine contained 435 billion web pages, almost nine petabytes of data, and was growing at about 20 terabytes per week. |
| October 2013 | The 'Save Page Now' archiving feature was made available, allowing users to save web pages directly to the Wayback Machine by entering a URL. |
| January 2013 | The Wayback Machine announced a milestone of 240 billion archived URLs. |
| 2011 | Internet Archive installed their sixth pair of PetaBox racks, increasing the Wayback Machine's storage capacity by 700 terabytes. |
| 2011 | A new, improved version of the Wayback Machine was made available for public testing, featuring an updated interface, calendar layout, and enhanced navigation tools. |
| 2010 | Worldwide Web Crawls began, which aim to capture the global Web. |
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