The Wayback Machine passes one trillion saved web pages
The Internet Archive marks a milestone in saving the web, and a reminder of how much of it would otherwise be gone.
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In October 2025 the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine passed one trillion archived web pages, a milestone marked at the non-profit library's San Francisco headquarters on 22 October. It has been saving the web since 1996.
The scale measures the loss it guards against. A Pew Research Center study found that 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 could no longer be reached a decade later. Research data fares little better: one study found the odds of a research data set still existing fell by 17% for every year since publication.
What the Wayback Machine saves is the public web. Company archives, private code, internal records and closed customer systems sit outside its reach, and when a business winds down or moves on, there is rarely anyone keeping a copy. Those records do not have to be lost. Someone has to decide they are worth keeping, and know who might use them.
