Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since.

Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

It’s Final Draw day for World Cup 26! ⚽️
Decades of FIFA & World Cup-related sites are preserved in the Wayback Machine; some of the 1 trillion pages saved so far.
Ready to kick off a trip through the websites of the tournament & your favorite teams? Score your goal with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org

#WorldCup #Wayback1T @internetarchive

Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since.

Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.

👀 Pay your respects in full resolution ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/in-memoriam-web-mascots

#Wayback1T

Erin Malone — author, design historian, and Chair of Interaction Design at CCA — discusses building Kodak’s first website in the mid-1990s and gives a look at that site, now preserved in the #WaybackMachine.

📝 More ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/20/voices-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-erin-malone-on-designing-kodaks-first-web-site-in-1994/

#Wayback1T #WebHistory

Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.

👀 Pay your respects in full resolution ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/in-memoriam-web-mascots

#Wayback1T

Jean Armour Polly, aka the Net-mom & the person who helped popularize the phrase “surfing the internet," celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage. Her message highlights the ephemerality of websites, the importance of preserving digital culture, & honors the librarians & archivists who make it possible.

More ⬇️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/voices-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-jean-armour-polly-net-mom/

#Wayback1T #DigitalPreservation #InternetArchive @Netmom

Jean Armour Polly, aka the Net-mom & the person who helped popularize the phrase “surfing the internet," celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage. Her message highlights the ephemerality of websites, the importance of preserving digital culture, & honors the librarians & archivists who make it possible.

More ⬇️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/voices-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-jean-armour-polly-net-mom/

#Wayback1T #DigitalPreservation #InternetArchive @Netmom

"A truly historic accomplishment," as NPR President & CEO Katherine Maher puts it: “1 trillion web pages. That’s 1 trillion artifacts and snapshots of our interconnected world.”

🎬 Maher reflects on why preserving our digital record matters more than ever, and the crucial role of the Wayback Machine.

📝 More ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/14/voices-celebrating-1-trillion-pages-katherine-maher-president-and-ceo-of-npr/

#Wayback1T

Hi5 was an early social platform, launched in 2003. Mostly forgotten in the U.S., but big in Latin America & Southeast Asia with tens of millions of users around 2007–2008. Today it’s mostly social games & dating.

The #WaybackMachine preserves the early web, from the famous to the forgotten. Use it to find your forgotten corners of the internet. ⤵️
https://web.archive.org

#Wayback1T #Hi5 #DigitalHistory #SocialMediaHistory #Nostalgia