Wayback Machine (Peabody's Improbable History)

The Wayback Machine or WABAC Machine is a fictional <a href="/facts/Time_travel/3rmwahY9">time machine</a> and <a href="/facts/Plot_device/RkNc0shX">plot device</a> from the 1960s American <a href="/facts/Cartoon/24v34f3m">cartoon</a> <a href="/facts/Television_show/eooTEhwW">television series</a> <a href="/facts/The_Adventures_of_Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_and_Friends/9AuXQ1Dp">The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends</a>. Each episode of the cartoon series included a short segment "Peabody's Improbable History" in which the Wayback Machine was used by the segment's main characters, <a href="/facts/Mister_Peabody/LaQzM1xm">Mr. Peabody</a> and Sherman, to <a href="/facts/Time_travel_in_fiction/eFPul7mY">travel back in time</a> to visit important events in human history. The term has acquired popular or idiomatic usage as a way to introduce events or things from the past.
The <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> of the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a> was named after the Wayback Machine from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon.

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