Wayback Machine public launch (2001-10-24)

CTL-E-4058 · Event · other · 2001

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Public launch of the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive's web archive, created in 1996 by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat.

Notes

RELP92 supporting event entity; events.json CTL-EVT-022015.

Referenced by

Brewster Kahle — initiated → this record
Internet Archive National Emergency Library launch (2020-03-24) — related to → this record

Sources

open-us.org - Wayback Machine

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