From: blockedofcourse@foo.invalid   
      
   Well, apparently, it was originally conceived as "Waybac":   
      
    From   
    in   
   re: the Wayback Machine (archive.org):   
      
       "On another note, we got a nice letter from the last living director of   
       the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Gerard Baldwin, because he read about the   
       "fantastic project". Our Wayback Machine is a tribute to their more   
        cleverly named "Waybac Machine" which in turn was a reference to the   
        Univac. Sherman and Peabody live on."   
      
   I think WABAC would have been more in style with the times (and Wikipedia   
   seems to suggest the same) -- think of RUDI, Uniblab, etc.) but certainly   
   "Wayback" is a colloquialization for folks with more limited imaginations.   
      
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