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The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet. It was launched in 2001 by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in 2001 to address the problem of website content vanishing whenever it gets changed or shut down.[4] The service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a "three dimensional index".[5] Kahle and Gilliat created the machine hoping to archive the entire Internet and provide "universal access to all knowledge."[6]
The name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the "WABAC machine" (pronounced way-back), a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon.[7][8] In one of the animated cartoon's component segments, Peabody's Improbable History, the characters routinely used the machine to witness, participate in, and, more often than not, alter famous events in history.
The Wayback Machine began archiving cached web pages in 1996, with the goal of making the service public five years later.[9] From 1996 to 2001 the information was kept on digital tape, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers and scientists to tap into the clunky database.[10] When the archive reached its fifth anniversary in 2001, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley.[11] By the time the Wayback Machine launched, it already contained over 10 billion archived pages.[12]
Today the data is stored on the Internet Archive's large cluster of Linux nodes.[6] It revisits and archives new versions of websites on occasion (see technical details below).[13] Sites can also be captured manually by entering a website's URL into the search box, provided the website allows the Wayback Machine to "crawl" it and save the data.[9]
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Patent law Edit
Main article: Internet as a source of prior art
Provided some additional requirements are met (e.g., providing an authoritative statement of the archivist), the United States patent office and the European Patent Office will accept date stamps from the Internet Archive as evidence of when a given Web page was accessible to the public. These dates are used to determine if a Web page is available as prior art for instance in examining a patent application.[61]
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Scientology Edit
See also: Scientology and the Internet
In late 2002, the Internet Archive removed various sites that were critical of Scientology from the Wayback Machine.[65] An error message stated that this was in response to a "request by the site owner".[66] Later, it was clarified that lawyers from the Church of Scientology had demanded the removal and that the site owners did not want their material removed.[67]
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Executive Staff
Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive
A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. He is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world. Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker. In 1989, Kahle created the Internet's first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), later selling the company to AOL. In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 20 petabytes of data - the books, Web pages, music, television, and software of our cultural heritage, working with more than 400 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.
Lila Bailey Policy Counsel
Lila is thrilled to join the Internet Archive to help advise on the complex legal and policy issues associated with democratizing access to knowledge. Prior to this, Lila was a solo practitioner specializing in digital copyright and privacy issues for individual entrepreneurs and creators, early stage start-ups, Internet platforms, and libraries. Lila began her working life in traditional publishing at Conde Nast Publications, but decided to go to law school so that "the lawyers don't break the Internet." Since then, she has dedicated her career to public interest technology law, and has worked on increasing access to knowledge at Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law. Lila has a JD from Berkeley Law and a BA in Philosophy from Brown University. Her favorite books include The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, The Tenth of December by George Saunders, and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
Jefferson Bailey Director, Web Archiving Programs
Jefferson joined Internet Archive in Summer 2014. Prior to joining IA, he worked on strategic initiatives, digital preservation, archives, and digital collections at institutions such as Metropolitan New York Library Council, Library of Congress, Brooklyn Public Library, and Frick Art Reference Library and has worked in the archives at NARA, NASA, and Atlantic Records. He has an MLIS in Archival Studies from University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from Oberlin College. He once flew NASA's Space Shuttle Simulator and caused, according to the flight engineer, "minor landing gear damage." He has deaccessioned all records of this event from his personal archive.
Henry Chen Director, Super Center
Henry first learned about the Internet Archive when he worked on the Amazon Kindle. He was hooked ever since, and was delighted to join the Archive as Director of Super Center in 2017. In addition to stints leading software QA and driving content quality initiatives on the Kindle, he has run SQA, operations, and manufacturing teams at companies such as Apple and Ricoh. The nicest rooms in his house are the kitchen and study, which is a good indication of what he likes to do in his spare time.
Jacques Cressaty Director of Finance
Board Secretary
Jacques joined Internet Archive in 2001 and supervises the finance team responsible for the day to day financial administration, treasury, taxes, audits, grants management, regulatory requirements and whatever comes his way. His background in finance/banking, as well as non-profit accounting, helps him navigate the complexity of our operations. Over the past 16 years he has accumulated a trove of information that he makes available to our staff in the hope that it will make their job a little easier. His strength resides in extremely organized and blessed with a great memory. He relocated from France 50 years ago, his outside interests are mostly in the arts, landscape photography, opera, jazz and spending time in nature.
David Fox Director of Development
David has been a "Friend of the Archive" since Y2K. He joined the team in 2017 to develop a major gifts program with the Archive's most committed donors. David has been a technology industry entrepreneur for over three decades. He was the co-founder of KnowledgeWeb which was acquired by a public company in 1999. Earlier in his career, David was the co-founder of technology distributor InfoMagic Australia which represented desktop publishing pioneers like Adobe, Aldus, and Radius. As a philanthropist, he provided seed funding to found two non-profit organizations, the Biomimicry Institute and classical music recording label Musica Omnia and has served on numerous boards. He made his first visit to the US in 1985 for the Boston MacWorld Expo and moved to San Francisco in 1994. David still surfs a shortboard at Ocean Beach and is the father of a teenage daughter.
Chris Freeland Director of Open Libraries
Chris Freeland is the Director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive, working in support of the organization's mission to provide "Universal access to all knowledge." Before joining the Internet Archive Chris was an Associate University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, managing Washington University Libraries' digital initiatives and related services. He holds an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Eastern Illinois University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from University of Missouri-Columbia. His research explores the intersections of science and technology in a cultural heritage context, having published and presented on a variety of topics relating to the use of new media and emerging technologies in libraries and museums.
While working previously at Missouri Botanical Garden, he founded and led the Center for Biodiversity Informatics and served as the Founding Technical Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an international consortium of the world's leading natural history libraries that are working together to digitize their historic collections for free and open access use. He has been a project director for several large informatics and academic computing projects, including the development of the Tropicos botanical information system, online at www.tropicos.org, and the BHL, online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org. In addition to his busy academic life, he enjoys making and selling soap for South Compton Soap Company, the small business he runs with his husband, who is also named Chris.
John C. Gonzalez Director of Engineering & Service Availability
John joined the Archive in July of 2014. He has over 30 years of experience in business and technology management including Director of Products at the Xerox Content Management Business Unit, VP of Product Management for Clearstory Systems (WebWare), and VP of Corporate Business Development for Getty Images. John has held positions in product management and business development with Intel, Sequent Computer Systems, In Focus Systems, Now Software, and Extensis. He is currently the Chairman of the San Francisco Children's Creativity Museum. John holds a CS degree from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mark Graham Director of the Wayback Machine
Mark Graham has created and managed innovative online products and services since 1984. As Director of the Wayback Machine he is responsible for capturing, preserving and helping people discover and use, more than 1 billion new web captures each week. Mark was most recently Senior Vice President with NBC News where he managed several business units including GardenWeb and Stringwire, a live, mobile, video platform for collaborative citizen reporting. Mark was Senior Vice President of Technology with iVillage, an early Internet company that focused on women and community. He co-founded Rojo Networks, one of the first large-scale feed aggregators and personalized blog readers (sold to sixapart.)
In the early days of the net he managed technology and business development at The WELL and lead their effort to build the first web-based interface for online forums, and also helped bring the pre-web Internet to millions of people by running AOL's Gopher project as part of their Internet Center. He managed technology for the pioneering US-Soviet Sovam Teleport email service and co-founded and managed PeaceNet, one of the first online communities for progressive social change, and later IGC.org, one of the world first ISPs. He also co-founded the global NGO, APC.org. Mark's early training and experience with computer-mediated communications was acquired while he served in the US Air Force, spending more than 3 years working at the Air Force Data Services Center at the Pentagon. Mark's nonprofit work includes volunteering with the open education library http://oercommons.org and as a board member of http://openrecoverysf.org.
Wendy Hanamura Director of Partnerships
Wendy Hanamura joined the Internet Archive in 2014 as the Director of Partnerships. Her first goal is to help build a new institute where brilliant developers can come work with the Archive's big data sets. At the Archive, Wendy hopes to use her storytelling skills to share the remarkable stories locked in its collections. Previously, as Chief Digital Officer of KCETLink and Link TV, the national non-profit media network, Wendy led diverse teams producing television series, apps, a semantic platform for global videos, international film contests and documentaries - all in the service of social change.
Wendy began her career in journalism as a photo editor for Time magazine. She's reported and produced television content around the world for CBS, World Monitor Television, NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation), and PBS. Her favorite project remains Honor Bound: A Personal Journey, the documentary she produced about her father and his storied unit, the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Wendy graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University where she majored in East Asian Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies; then she studied architecture with Fumihiko Maki at the University of Tokyo. Wendy loves to hike, throw parties and teach art in the San Francisco public schools. She loves paper and books, especially handmade paper from Japan and the ways artists use it.
Roger Macdonald Director, Television Archive
Roger joined the Internet Archive to help create an open digital public library of TV news, providing a means to thoughtfully reflect upon the most pervasive and persuasive medium of our time. Certainly no coincidence that he had spent the previous eleven years helping to manage the nation's largest independent noncommercial TV network, Link TV. Prior to co-founding the network devoted to global news and culture in1999, Roger helped create and manage several other organizations engaged in addressing international challenges, often through media, including the Gorbachev Foundation. His favorite quote: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -- Horace Mann, abolitionist; father of U.S. public education; and founder of Antioch College.
BZ Petroff Director of Administration and Human Resources
BZ joined the Internet Archive in October 2016. A veteran of the Animation industry; Lucasfilm, Wild Brain, Pixar and Colossal Pictures, it was her love of books that drove her to work for the Internet Archive. As a life long "people person" she is well suited for her responsibilities in events and people operations for the Archive. When not working, BZ likes to watch baseball, listen to jazz and go running on her beloved Mt. Tamalpais.
Alexis Rossi Director of Media & Access
Alexis has been working with the Internet Archive since our first service, the Wayback Machine, was launched in 2001. She currently manages all media and access for archive.org, including audio, movies, books, software, images, and the archive.org web site. Her past Internet Archive projects include Open Library the Open Content Alliance and the Wayback Machine.
Alexis has been working with Internet content since 1996 when she discovered that being picky about words in books (as a cookbook editor) was good training for being picky about data on computers. She spent several years as Managing Editor at ClariNet (the first online news aggregator), worked as the Editorial Director at Alexa Internet, and as Product Manager at Mixercast. Alexis has an MLIS, concentrating on web technologies and interfaces, and enjoys making jewelry, dancing, and baking Cookie Smackdown-winning cookies. You can read her blog at alexisrossi.com or follow her on twitter.
CR Saikley Director of Special Projects
CR Saikley tackled his first engineering problem for the Internet Archive professionally in 2003, when he designed the first generation of PetaBox hardware that stores the trillions of bytes of data in our collections. He has since designed a second generation of PetaBox hardware, and launched multiple digitization projects for the Internet Archive, improving our scanning processes for books and CDs. CR now turns his prodigious problem-solving skills now to our Physical Archive, where he is creating processes to inventory, track and securely preserve millions of physical items, from books to 78 rpm records.
Since his days at MIT, CR has over 30 years of experience in technology development and management in many diverse areas including medical equipment, large-scale data storage, computer vision, data communications, grid-scale power, and semiconductor test equipment.
Outside the office, CR can sometimes be spotted playing guitar in various venues around the San Francisco Bay, or sailing on its glorious waters.
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The company that runs it, the Internet Archive, is a non-profit organization. According to wikipedia, "it has an annual budget of $10 million, derived from a variety of sources: revenue from its ...
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October 29, 2015
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, a massive archive of 19 years of captured websites, has received funding for a next-generation overhaul which will add some search capabilities and enhance how it captures webpages and displays media-rich content.
The grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation will fund a rewrite of the Wayback Machine's code to make it a faster and more reliable resource when it relaunches in 2017. In addition to a new user interface, it will provide some other much-welcome changes:
Limited Keyword Searching -- Currently using the Wayback Machine is only useful if you know the URL of the archived website you are researching. While the sheer size of its 439 billion webpage archive (with 1 billion new pages added every week) makes full search indexing impractical, the new version will index the homepages for the archived websites, making some keyword search functionality possible.
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation run by John D. Arnold, an American hedge fund manager, and his wife Laura Arnold. The organization was founded in 2008, the same year that the ...
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation (also known as LJAF and as the Arnold Foundation) is a private foundation run by John D. Arnold, an American hedge fund manager, and his wife Laura Arnold.[1] The organization was founded in 2008, the same year that the Arnolds signed the Giving Pledge, a pledge by some high-net-worth individuals to donate a large fraction of their income to philanthropic causes during their lifetimes.[2]
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Founder
John D. Arnold
Laura Arnold
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private foundation
Key people
John D. Arnold
Laura Arnold
Website
www.arnoldfoundation.org
The foundation has focused its donations on the issues of K-12 education reform, public pension reform, criminal justice reform, dietary policy, and improving reproducibility in science.[1]