The Wayback Machine's First Crawl Poster

The Wayback Machine's First Crawl

Not Rated

Starring: Brewster Kahle

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
August 6, 2021
Ratings:
8.0 / 10
Director:
Wendy Hanamura
Companies:
N/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.