Etymology

wayback machine

Today it means: A time machine or other means of revisiting information from the past. Full definition →

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The story

From the WABAC machine in the animated cartoon Mister Peabody, from way back (“long ago”). According to Gerard Baldwin, one of the show's directors, the spelling was a reference to the UNIVAC I computer.

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