Mark Graham

Sure, yeah. Hi, my name is Mark Graham, and I am the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Sure, yeah. Hi, my name is Mark Graham, and I am the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Sure, yeah. Hi, my name is Mark Graham, and I am the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Where do I begin? It's like walking into a very large library and saying, show me your favorite book. Well, for example, last year, it was a big news story that MTV News was shut down. And the founding editor of MT News wrote about it on LinkedIn. And there was a lot of other editors talking about it. It was like, oh, my God, all of our articles are gone. They're missing.

Where do I begin? It's like walking into a very large library and saying, show me your favorite book. Well, for example, last year, it was a big news story that MTV News was shut down. And the founding editor of MT News wrote about it on LinkedIn. And there was a lot of other editors talking about it. It was like, oh, my God, all of our articles are gone. They're missing.

Where do I begin? It's like walking into a very large library and saying, show me your favorite book. Well, for example, last year, it was a big news story that MTV News was shut down. And the founding editor of MT News wrote about it on LinkedIn. And there was a lot of other editors talking about it. It was like, oh, my God, all of our articles are gone. They're missing.

And I just casually, you know, waded into the conversation and go, hi, check here, Wayback Machine. And they were like, oh, my God, you guys, like, got it all, pretty much, yeah. And they said, well, you know, people say, well, what did you do? What did you do when it went down? I say, we didn't do anything. when it went down because we've been doing our job all along.

And I just casually, you know, waded into the conversation and go, hi, check here, Wayback Machine. And they were like, oh, my God, you guys, like, got it all, pretty much, yeah. And they said, well, you know, people say, well, what did you do? What did you do when it went down? I say, we didn't do anything. when it went down because we've been doing our job all along.

And I just casually, you know, waded into the conversation and go, hi, check here, Wayback Machine. And they were like, oh, my God, you guys, like, got it all, pretty much, yeah. And they said, well, you know, people say, well, what did you do? What did you do when it went down? I say, we didn't do anything. when it went down because we've been doing our job all along.

We've been working to archive the public web as it's published on an ongoing and continuous basis. So if we have to start paying attention to something after it's gone down, That means we screwed up.

We've been working to archive the public web as it's published on an ongoing and continuous basis. So if we have to start paying attention to something after it's gone down, That means we screwed up.

We've been working to archive the public web as it's published on an ongoing and continuous basis. So if we have to start paying attention to something after it's gone down, That means we screwed up.

So for any one of a number of thousands of reasons, we set our web crawlers and archiving software out on a mission every day to identify and to download web pages and related web-based resources. We bring in millions and millions of URLs every day that are signals to us, signals of where new material is being published on the web.

So for any one of a number of thousands of reasons, we set our web crawlers and archiving software out on a mission every day to identify and to download web pages and related web-based resources. We bring in millions and millions of URLs every day that are signals to us, signals of where new material is being published on the web.

So for any one of a number of thousands of reasons, we set our web crawlers and archiving software out on a mission every day to identify and to download web pages and related web-based resources. We bring in millions and millions of URLs every day that are signals to us, signals of where new material is being published on the web.

And we make sure that we archive all of those URLs, all the web pages associated with those URLs. And then we look at those pages and we identify links to other pages. And then we go to those pages and we archive them. etc., etc., etc. That's where you get this metaphor of crawling like a spider throughout this web.

And we make sure that we archive all of those URLs, all the web pages associated with those URLs. And then we look at those pages and we identify links to other pages. And then we go to those pages and we archive them. etc., etc., etc. That's where you get this metaphor of crawling like a spider throughout this web.

And we make sure that we archive all of those URLs, all the web pages associated with those URLs. And then we look at those pages and we identify links to other pages. And then we go to those pages and we archive them. etc., etc., etc. That's where you get this metaphor of crawling like a spider throughout this web.

And the net result of it is that we add more than a billion archived URLs to the Wayback Machine every day. And this material, as it's added to the Wayback Machine, is indexed and it's immediately available to people who go to web.archive.org, enter in a URL, and then are able to see a history of archives that we have of the web page that was available from the URL at any given time.

And the net result of it is that we add more than a billion archived URLs to the Wayback Machine every day. And this material, as it's added to the Wayback Machine, is indexed and it's immediately available to people who go to web.archive.org, enter in a URL, and then are able to see a history of archives that we have of the web page that was available from the URL at any given time.