There. The life a webpage is 100 days. This takes snapshots of webpages, done it since 1976, and called the way back machine on archives. Org. You can find things that disappeared either maliciously or sometimes they just drop off the net. How many websites are there today . Hundreds of millions. Theyre sort of coming and going all of the time. We collect about 800 million pages every day. The total collection is about 800 billion u. R. L. s. Its kind of huge. That turns out to only be part of what we do. We also archive television, abc nbc, cbs fox, and more. You can search to find clips of what other people said and be able to put them in the blog posts and the like. The idea so people can compare and contrast critically whats happened on division. The old daily show with jon stewart, he did Something Like that said they said this now they said that. Its used by journalists and end users all the time. Its a free library on the internet. Why couldnt i just go to google and type in jon