Wayback Machine Twitter



Wayback Machine Twitter

The Twayback Machine makes it ever-so-slightly easier to jump back in time to your friends' Twitter feeds from long ago, for fun and trolling. It was inspired by archive.org's Wayback Machineand the grounbreaking research (and documentation) from. Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine is another popular suggestion to view deleted Twitter tweets. Although this idea is not a flat-out “NO” in terms of possibilities, it is a difficult task that consumes considerable time with the possibility of no results. Your profile may not have any snapshots from the past.

The Discovery Channel’s first website was really depressing. (Photo: Twitter)

It may be Back to the Future Day, but that doesn’t mean you can’t embrace the past.

Need proof? Check out the new Twitter bot wayback_exe. Launched yesterday, the bot scours the Internet for old webpages, and then screenshots them as they would appear in antique browsers.

The bot utilizes the Wayback Machine, which began in 1996 as a project of the Internet Archive (a nonprofit digital library which has copies of 439 billion webpages) and Alexa Internet (a search engine precursor to Google which now runs analytics).The Wayback Machine now contains approximately 23 petabytes of data, and is growing at a rate of 50-60 terabytes per week.

Because it can draw from so much data, the Twitter account has been able to unearth many hidden gems of the Internet in just its first 24 hours:

Discovery Channel OnlineDec 1996https://t.co/f5SEPwx1FHpic.twitter.com/7bmcYQPrjR

— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 21, 2015

The channel hadn’t yet discovered Web design.

Stanley KubrickJun 1997https://t.co/Zq5ZnQlBoipic.twitter.com/V00u1efu3u

Wayback machine trump twitter

— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 21, 2015

Wayback Machine Pewdiepie Twitter

If this were my website, I’d keep my eyes wide shut.

Screen Source: 1997 Oscars EligiblesFeb 1998https://t.co/yxwdNbo9Jgpic.twitter.com/7XEwLFQHvP

— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 20, 2015

Twitter

This was a titanic disappointment.

Wayback Machine Twitter

Wayback Machine Tweets

AMERICA'S EROTIC PHOTO – stories, leather, sex, bondage, BDSM,BDSMJan 1998https://t.co/UsAgBLTXuJpic.twitter.com/Rj6AkYHJSD

— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 20, 2015

Go on…

Yahoo! – Health:Diseases and Conditions:HerpesNov 1996https://t.co/sqaFTogk9opic.twitter.com/nNUaSR0fJr

— wayback_exe (@wayback_exe) October 21, 2015

Whoa Yahoo, we just met!

It’ll be interesting to see what cool corners the Wayback machine goes down in the weeks ahead.

Wayback Machine Twitter

If you’re a do-it-yourself type, the code for the bot is now on GitHub. Run it and have some throwback fun.