Talk:Wayback machine

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Renames 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Waybackmachine3.png 4 Machine Name WABAC v. Wayback

[edit] Introduction

I have created this page and resorted the wikilinks to WABAC, Way back machine, etc. to sort out what seemed to me to be an inaccurate arrangement. Previous pages for wayback machine redirected to the Internet Archives, while the WABAC page redirected to Mr. Peabody. Seems to me the article is more accurate now, reflecting the original WABAC machine, the use of the term in popular culture, and the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archives. Happy to discuss the matter. The article certainly needs a bit more development; I did what I could. Bdushaw 04:30, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Not altogether happy with the size of the image file for the WABAC machine...its too big. Bdushaw 04:30, 26 June 2007 (UTC) Fixed now, I think - using indexed color pallete. Bdushaw 05:08, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Renames

This since article displaced the link to Internet Archive#Wayback Machine, it would be courteous to fix the links that referred to the IA's WM.--75.36.173.201 03:55, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

The article replaces the page that just redirected to Internet Archive. What links that refer to IA's WM are in error? Bdushaw 04:25, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

There is a judgment call here: There are many (several hundred) links to IA WM because of linkrot and the list is likely to grow (see length of WLH). People traversing those links to get to the IA WM should not have to deal with this cartoon.--76.203.125.247 03:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I see - you mean the articles that link to "Wayback Machine". Humm... Those links should be fixed, true. As I mentioned above, I objected to the use of "Wayback Machine" to mean exclusively the IA WM - that just isn't correct; there is more to the term than that. E.g., someone running across a pop-culture reference to Wayback Machine and going to Wikipedia for what the term meant would likely be confused if he found himself at IA. I'll try to work to fix those links, although I note that such links were to a page that just redirected to Internet Archive, so they weren't quite right to begin with, seems to me. Bdushaw 07:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Waybackmachine3.png

Image:Waybackmachine3.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 05:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Machine Name WABAC v. Wayback

Does anyone have concrete proof that the machine was actually called the WABAC, rather than the Wayback? That is, was the machine's name ever visible in the cartoons, or was the machine's name ever spelled out by Mr. Peabody? If not, then I think that the assumption that it was a WABAC (riffing on Univac or Eniac) is possibly a retroactive correlation. Doug 16:56, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

You are right to ask for a reference on this. Although given the choice between "WABAC" and "Wayback" within the context of 1959-1960 American culture, the term "wayback" is a more likely retroactive correlation, IMO. The answer would be found in a script for the show, if one could be found; one way to find the answer. We should find a reference for this, but I would object to removing or changing the "WABAC" explanation for the time being. See e.g., [1] 24.41.54.89 (talk) 09:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)