The Wayback Machine's First Crawl

Wendy Hanamura
2021-08-06


8
0 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Brewster Kahle Unowned