The Wayback machine originally referred to a fictional machine from a segment of the cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show used to transport Mr. Peabody and Sherman back in time. The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the collective name for two separate American Television Animated series: Rocky and His Friends Mr Peabody is a fictional Dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s Television Animated series Rocky Mr Peabody is a fictional Dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s Television Animated series Rocky The term "Wayback Machine" has been enthusiastically adopted by popular culture as mechanism to suggest transporting one's thoughts back to a historical time and place. Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance —
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The WABAC machine on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
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The WABAC (pronounced "wayback") machine was from the Peabody's Improbable History segment of the early '60's cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the collective name for two separate American Television Animated series: Rocky and His Friends The machine was constructed by Mr. Peabody, a professorial, bow tie-wearing dog, to be able to visit famous historical events. Mr Peabody is a fictional Dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s Television Animated series Rocky At the request of Mr. Peabody, Sherman, Peabody's "pet boy" assistant, would set the WABAC machine to a time and place of historical importance, and the two would be instantly transported there. Mr Peabody is a fictional Dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s Television Animated series Rocky The machine was not exactly a time machine because it only transported backwards in time, hence the name "Wayback Machine. " The machine apparently later returned Mr. Peabody and Sherman to the present, although the return trip was never shown in the cartoon segment. The machine was little more than a plot device to allow the characters to visit the past. A plot device is an element introduced into a story solely to advance or resolve the plot of the story
The name WABAC is a play on computer names such as UNIVAC and ENIAC that were contemporary to the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and the WABAC machine was similar in size to those early computers. UNIVAC serves as the catch-all name for the American manufacturers of the lines of mainframe computers by that name which through mergers and acquisitions underwent ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic Computer.
The Wayback Machine will no doubt be a key component of a new computer animated feature film by DreamWorks Animation featuring Mr. Peabody and Sherman. [1]
The Wayback Machine in popular culture
The concept or term "Wayback Machine" has been extensively adopted in popular culture as a convenient way to introduce issues or events of the past and to suggest the audience follow the narrator back to the past. Frequently such visits to the past are trips of nostalgia, remembering times, places, or things of the not-so-distant past. [2] Similar to the original Wayback Machine experience, in such visits of nostalgia there is no need to describe the return trip to the present.
Examples
- In the TV show "NewsRadio" (Goofy Ball (1995)): Station owner Jimmy James (Stephen Root): Dave, don't mess with a man with a Wayback Machine. NewsRadio is an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 on NBC. Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American Actor. He is principally known for his comedic work but has won acclaim for I can make it so you were never born. [1]
- In the movie Tron (1982): Fired programmer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges): Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for. Tron is a 1982 Disney Science fiction film starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is a four-time Academy Award -nominated American Actor and Musician. . . oh, 1973. [2]
Wayback Machine at Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (archive.org) has capitalized on the popular use of the term "Wayback Machine" and uses this term as the name for the snapshot archives of the World Wide Web. The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and [3] This service allows users to see archived versions of web pages of the past—what the Archive calls a "three dimensional index". A web page or webpage is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a Web browser. Not all webpages are available, however, because many website owners voluntarily exclude their sites. The use of the term "Wayback Machine" in the context of the Internet Archive has become so common that "Wayback Machine" and "Internet Archive" are almost synonymous.
See also
External links
- Toonopedia entry on Peabody's Improbable History
- Andy's Anachronisms: Time Travel Television Reviews: Peabody's Improbable History
- The Wayback Machine at archive.org
References
- ^ Briscoe, Tim (September 15, 2006). Mr Peabody is a fictional Dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s Television Animated series Rocky This article details time travel itself For other uses see Time Traveler. This is a partial list of television series that include episodes about Time travel. The TARDIS ( T ime A nd R elative D imension(s I n S pace is a time machine and Spacecraft in the Mr. Peabody and Sherman take the Wayback Machine to the big screen. Videoeta. com. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
DreamWorks Animation and Director Rob Minkoff Team Up to Bring 'Mr. Peabody & Sherman' to the Big Screen. DreamWorks Animation (September 15, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians - ^ Miller, Ernest (24 September). Sherman, Set the Wayback Machine for Scientology (Blog). LawMeme. Yale Law School. Retrieved on 2007-06-27. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden
Robinson, Eugene. "Who Set the Wayback Machine for 1939?", Washington Post, September 5, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
Britt, Robert Roy (July 25, 2005). The Wayback Machine? Nearby Solar System Looks Like Home. Space. com. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
Mallozzi, Vincent M. . "A Jukebox Is a Way-Back Machine With Black Vinyl Wings", The New York Times, April 6, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
Smith, Sam (April 26, 2007). Condi’s way-back machine. Scholars and Rogues. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
Clark, Mike. "Wayback machine puts out plenty of time-travel movies", USA Today, April 12, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
Bronson, Peter (June 21, 2007). Who misses 'Miami Vice' '80s? College kids, of all people. The Enquirer. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
Gonos, David (November 9, 2006). Pitching to be your keepers. CBS Sportsline. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
Morris, Chris. "Pac Man turns 25: A pizza dinner yields a cultural phenomenon - and millions of dollars in quarters.", CNN Money, May 10, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians - ^ Green, Heather. "A Library as Big as the World: Brewster Kahle has the technology to assemble the ultimate archive of human knowledge. What's stopping him? Restrictive copyright laws", Business Week Online, February 28, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
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