CBS Morning News berichtet über die Wayback Machine (via Newsletter Internet Archive):
“The Wayback Machine has been making backups of the world wide web since 1996. Mark Graham, its director, describes it as “a time machine for the web. It does that by going and looking at webpages, hundreds of millions of them every single day right now, and stores them in our servers.”
To date there are nearly 900 billion web pages backed up, though computer scientist Brewster Kahle thinks it’s a cruel joke to call them “pages” considering their short lifespan: “The average life of a webpage is a hundred days before it’s changed or deleted,” he said.”