THE INTERNET ARCHIVE The Wayback Machines First Crawl 1996

In October of 1996, engineers at the the San Franciscobased 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. Produced by Wendy Hanamura Edited by Kristin Tieche Videographer: Brad Shirakawa Archival footage courtesy of Marc Weber, The Web History Project, 1996, all rights reserved. Source