The complete history of all snapshots ever recorded by the Archive for the homepage of each website was requested using the Wayback CDX Server API through November 5, 2015. Since the Archive does not publish a master inventory of the domains preserved in the Wayback Machine, the Alexa ranking of the top one million most popular websites in the world was used, which is compiled from browsing activity in more than 70 countries. To truly understand the Archive it is clear we must move beyond casual anecdotes to a systematic assessment of the collection’s holdings. In contrast, BBC’s website has been archived since December 1996, but the volume of snapshots ebbed and flowed in fits and starts through 2012. For example, despite CNN.com launching in September 1995, the Archive’s first snapshot its homepage does not appear until June 2000. Regular users of the Wayback Machine are familiar with the myriad oddities of its holdings.
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