The Wayback Machine Internet archive of the past.

Wayback Machine

Specialized in storing and accessing old Web pages, with coverage extending back to 1995. Includes over 150 billion page web archive.

The WABAC (pronounced "wayback") machine was from the Peabody's Improbable History segment of the early '60s cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The machine was constructed by Mr. Peabody, a professorial, bow tie-wearing dog, to be able to visit famous historical events. At the request of Mr. Peabody, Sherman, Peabody's "pet boy" assistant, would set the WABAC machine to a time and place of historical importance, and the two would be instantly transported there.

Hop in, and explore the 20' by 8' by 8' machine that sits in Santa Clara, courtesy of Sun Microcomputer. It serves about 500 queries per second from the approximately 4.5 Petabytes (4.5 million gigabytes) of

archived web data. We think of the cluster of computers and the Modular Datacenter as a single machine because it acts like one and looks like one. If that is true, then it might be one of the largest current computers.

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