Throughout the 2000s, the Internet Archive continued to expand its collection by merging pre-existing databases as well as building new ones. According to Kahle, he was inspired to create the Machine after visting the offices of now-defunct search engine service Alta Vista and witnessing the company's ambitious plan to store and index everything that was on the web. The database eventually became available for public access on the fifth anniversary of the project in 2001 with the launch of The Wayback Machine, a digital time capsule that allows its users to browse multiple versions of web pages archived over time. news publications upon its launch, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired Magazine and National Public Radio (NPR). Despite its lack of public access, the Internet Archives was met by press coverage from several U.S. Kahle's collection was largely kept private on digital tape throughout the 1990s, only allowing researchers and scientists to access the database on special occasions. It initially began as Kahle's personal project to archive the World Wide Web, Netnews Bulletin Board System and other publicly available software and webpages, but by late 1999, its scope had been expanded to include other worthy archive collections like the Prelinger Archives and the NASA Images Archive. The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 by American computer engineer and Internet activist Brewster Kahle, who also co-founded the web crawling service Alexa Internet around the same time.
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