Editing Internet Archive (section)

===Wayback Machine===
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[[File:Wayback Machine logo 2010.svg|right|thumb|Wayback Machine logo, used since 2001]]The [[Wayback Machine]] is a service that allows archives of the World Wide Web to be searched and accessed.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2002/tc20020228_1080.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020601134105/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2002/tc20020228_1080.htm| archive-date = June 1, 2002| title = A Library as Big as the World| last = Green | first = Heather | date = February 28, 2002| publisher = [[Business Week]] Online}}</ref> It can be used to see what previous versions of web sites used to look like or to visit web sites that no longer even exist. The Wayback Machine was created as a joint effort between [[Alexa Internet]] (owned by [[Amazon.com]]) and the Internet Archive.<ref name=":1"/> Hundreds of billions of web sites and their associated data (images, source code, documents, etc.) are saved in a database. {{As of|2024|9|5|df=US}}, the Internet Archive held over 866&nbsp;billion web pages, more than 42.5&nbsp;million print materials, 13&nbsp;million videos, 3&nbsp;million TV news reports, 1.2&nbsp;million software programs, 14&nbsp;million audio files, 5&nbsp;million images, and 272,660 concerts in its Wayback Machine.<ref name="Archive2024" />[[File:Internet Archive servers 5034 - Jason Scott.jpg|thumb|[[Server (computing)|Servers]] at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco]]
[[File:Incoming additional storage at Internet Archive.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Disk enclosure#Hard drive shucking|purchase of additional storage]] at the Internet Archive]]