Megabytes

Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine has been upgraded and now includes the internet. Do you remember the cartoon, Peabody and Sherman from the 1960s? In it, a dog named Mr. Peabody and his pet boy, Sherman, traveled throughout history helping major historical events turn out as history books tell us they did. They used one of Mr. Peabody’s inventions, The Wayback Machine.
Fast-forward to 1996, when The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library. Librarians are behind the idea of preserving society’s cultural artifacts and providing access to them. Civilization needs memory archives to learn from its successes and failures. The Internet Archive focuses on collections of digital artifacts, including texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.
My friend and Virtual Assistant, Shane B. told me about The Wayback Machine, as the Internet Archive is called. As you might guess, many web developers and administrative assistants use the archive to look up an old web page. Perhaps your website has undergone 2-3 redesigns in its internet life. Travel back with the Wayback Machine and view its different looks. Or perhaps you want some important data that was removed from one of your web pages. You could find it here.

Just for fun, go to the Wayback Machine and type in “google.com” . Then, click on the very first entry, dated Nov 11, 1998. Wow! Google in Beta!