Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days agoThe Wayback Machine started saving web pages in 1996. I’ve got Geocities pages I created at the time where that’s the only way I can access them now.
Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days agoThe Wayback Machine started saving web pages in 1996. I’ve got Geocities pages I created at the time where that’s the only way I can access them now.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 days ago
They started in 2001 archiving pages back to 1995. I guess it was luck of the draw what got saved then.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
They used existing archives; the pages were actually archived earlier. But they could only incorporate the pages that had actually been archived, which was mostly major services (Geocities, ProHosting, Lycos, etc) and public institutions.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 days ago
That makes sense, from why some things were captured more than others and from the pov of starting an archive service - using what's already been done and going from there. So things that weren't part of such a network and didn't rank high in existing search engines really didn't have a chance.