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How did an organization archive Internet's History?

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The Story of Internet Archive's WayBack Machine Internet Archive is an American Non-Profit Organisation that maintains a digital library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It was founded in 1996 to give  "Universal Access to all languages and information". They created Wayback Machine to maintain the Digital archive of the  Internet ( W orld  W ide  W eb) Image of the WayBack Machine at https://web.archive.org     WayBack Machine  helps us to travel back in time and allows you to view how websites looked in the past . Since 1996, they had archived over 613 billion web pages*. The purpose of the WayBack Machine is to collect as much content as possible from the Internet that might otherwise be lost when the website's domain changes or is closed down. It helps us to see how the advent of technology has changed our lives on the Internet.      WayBack  Machine allows the user to create a Web capture (Caching/Saving of the respe