In this video, shot by Marc Weber for the Web History Project, Brewster Kahle explains his hardware and process, while the first crawl is underway. 25 years later, the Wayback Machine--which launched as a public search engine of web pages in 2001--has captured some 588 billion web pages by working with 800+ partners around the world. In 2021, Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle, reflects back on the most surprising advancement of his early innovation, the Wayback Machine. (Note - this is an awesome tool that allows a user to recover Web materials that have been long-since removed. -ray)
https://archive.org/details/wayback-machine-1996/The+Wayback+Machine's+First+Crawl+1996.mp4
