The Wayback Machine recently captured its trillionth web page – here are 5 surprising facts about the 'living history of the internet'

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The Wayback Machine is a nifty tool, but I didn't realize just how important, or expansive, this library of internet history actually is – and what the Internet Archive, which maintains this collection, also gets up to.

In a recent report, CNN revealed a whole lot of interesting facts (via PC Gamer) about the Wayback Machine and, more broadly, the Internet Archive. At its heart, Wayback is a time machine that lets you travel back to previous versions of web pages – or, if you like, it's a TARDIW (Time And Relative Dimensions In Web).