The Wayback Machine

One of the tools that a security professional can use to gaininformation about a past version of a Web site is something knownas the Wayback Machine. It is a Web application created by theInternet Archive that takes "snapshots" of a Web site at regularintervals and makes them available to anyone who looks. With theWayback Machine, it is possible to recover information that wasposted on a Web site sometime in the past.

1. Using a web browser, navigate to http://www.archive.org/

2. Enter the URL for Facebook.com and answer the followingquestions to complete this assignment. Between December 12, 1998,and the current time, how many revised pages are there?

What was the site named in the earliest days of the archive?

What is the first date a page is visible on Facebook?

What are at least two notable difference between the firstpresented site and the current site?