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By Troy Wolverton | Examiner staff writer
Nov 2, 2025
About 30 years ago, Brewster Kahle spearheaded what many might even now consider an outlandish project: archiving as much of the World Wide Web as possible.
But thanks to the efforts of Kahle and his team at San Francisco’s Internet Archive, researchers, reporters and curious citizens can see what the early web looked like, review campaign and corporate promises that have since been removed or significantly revised, and compare changes made to government websites by incoming administrations.
The endeavor has been so successful since its 1996 launch that late last month, the archive celebrated the archiving of its 1 trillionth webpage.
How the Internet Archive is moving beyond its milestone
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