Would you like a direct link to that article, or a summary of a different one (e.g., about saving deleted websites or how historians use the Wayback Machine)?
The service is highly regarded by journalists and researchers as the "crowning jewel" of internet preservation [11, 27]. While competitors like Archive.today or Memento exist, the Wayback Machine remains the most comprehensive public archive of its scale [17, 32]. internet archive wayback machine
Though it began crawling the web in 1996, the archive was initially private. Would you like a direct link to that