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The Wayback Machine is a library of the digital world, preserving billions (553, according to the website) of web pages — including Twitter. The use of Wayback Machine for Twitter (and other social media sites for that matter) goes in the same way you’d use it for other sites, like CNN, Tinypic or any business site. Breaking these numbers down by language, tweeted links sent by users with European interface languages had the highest rates of preservation in the Wayback Machine, with Swedish tweets having a. The Wayback Machine is a library of the digital world, preserving billions (553, according to the website) of web pages — including Twitter. The use of Wayback Machine for Twitter (and other social media sites for that matter) goes in the same way you’d use it for other sites, like CNN, Tinypic or any business site.
The Discovery Channel’s first website was really depressing. (Photo: Twitter)
It may be Back to the Future Day, but that doesn’t mean you can’t embrace the past.
Need proof? Check out the new Twitter bot wayback_exe. Launched yesterday, the bot scours the Internet for old webpages, and then screenshots them as they would appear in antique browsers.
The bot utilizes the Wayback Machine, which began in 1996 as a project of the Internet Archive (a nonprofit digital library which has copies of 439 billion webpages) and Alexa Internet (a search engine precursor to Google which now runs analytics).The Wayback Machine now contains approximately 23 petabytes of data, and is growing at a rate of 50-60 terabytes per week.
Because it can draw from so much data, the Twitter account has been able to unearth many hidden gems of the Internet in just its first 24 hours:
Discovery Channel OnlineDec 1996https://t.co/f5SEPwx1FHpic.twitter.com/7bmcYQPrjR
— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 21, 2015
The channel hadn’t yet discovered Web design.
Stanley KubrickJun 1997https://t.co/Zq5ZnQlBoipic.twitter.com/V00u1efu3u
— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 21, 2015
If this were my website, I’d keep my eyes wide shut.
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Screen Source: 1997 Oscars EligiblesFeb 1998https://t.co/yxwdNbo9Jgpic.twitter.com/7XEwLFQHvP
— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 20, 2015
This was a titanic disappointment.
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AMERICA'S EROTIC PHOTO – stories, leather, sex, bondage, BDSM,BDSMJan 1998https://t.co/UsAgBLTXuJpic.twitter.com/Rj6AkYHJSD
— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 20, 2015
Go on…
Yahoo! – Health:Diseases and Conditions:HerpesNov 1996https://t.co/sqaFTogk9opic.twitter.com/nNUaSR0fJr
— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 21, 2015
Whoa Yahoo, we just met!
It’ll be interesting to see what cool corners the Wayback machine goes down in the weeks ahead.
If you’re a do-it-yourself type, the code for the bot is now on GitHub. Run it and have some throwback fun.
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