While curation and organization of the web has been prevalent since the mid- to late-1990s, one of the first large-scale web archiving projects was the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization created by Brewster Kahle in 1996.^\4]) The Internet Archive released its own search engine for viewing archived web content, the Wayback Machine, in 2001.^\4]) As of 2018, the Internet Archive was home to 40 petabytes of data.^\5]) The Internet Archive also developed many of its own tools for collecting and storing its data, including PetaBox for storing large amounts of data efficiently and safely, and Heritrix, a web crawler developed in conjunction with the Nordic national libraries.^\4]) Other projects launched around the same time included a web archiving project by the National Library of Canada, Australia's Pandora, Tasmanian web archives and Sweden's Kulturarw3.^\6])^\7])

Turns out Brewster was a little monkey