The Wayback Machine is a nifty tool, but I didn’t realize just how important, or expansive, this library of internet history actually is – and what the Internet Archive, which maintains this collection, also gets up to. In a recent report, CNN revealed a whole lot of interesting facts (via PC Gamer) about the Wayback Machine and, more broadly, the Internet Archive. At its heart, Wayback is a time machine that lets you travel back to previous versions of web pages – or, if you like, it’s a TARDIW (Time And Relative Dimensions In Web). Looking back over a timeline of any given web page is crucial for seeing what changes have been made in the past, but it also keeps pages that have been wiped from the web alive and accessible. There’s more to the Wayback Machine than this, though, and indeed the broader activities of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit run by software engineers and […]