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The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the web
Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely available has led to lawsuits by publishers and the music industry.