The Wayback Machine's First Crawl (2021)
In October of 1996, engineers at the the San Francisco-based Internet Archive launched their first web crawlers, taking snapshots of web pages. At the time, the World Wide Web was only 2.5 terabytes in size.
Director: Wendy Hanamura
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Brewster Kahle as |
| Directing | Wendy Hanamura | Director |