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Wendy Hanamura

The Wayback Machine's First Crawl

    RELEASE

    2021-08-06

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    0 min

    Description

    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.