Internet Archive

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. The nonprofit digital archive best known for the Wayback Machine, which preserves historical snapshots of websites as well as books, audio, software, and other media. It is culturally important because so much of computing history would otherwise vanish.

    In plain English: A digital archive that preserves old websites and other online material.

    Example: "The docs were gone from the vendor site, but the Internet Archive still had a 2018 copy."

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