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名詞

wayback machine (plural wayback machines)

1. A time machine or other means of revisiting information from the past.
   • 2008, Terry Thompson, Adventures in Graphica, →ISBN:

     I can't set Mr. Peabody's wayback machine to July 1, 1863, and take my entire class of fifth graders on a field trip to show them what the Battle of Gettysburg was like. I don't have a wayback machine.

   • 2008, Lew Freedman, The 50 Greatest Plays in Chicago Bears Football History, →ISBN, page 42:

     The star middle linebacker, who will go down in history as one of the Bears' best and most popular players, willingly jumped in the wayback machine and stopped it on a game during his second NFL season.

   • 2014, Michael Waldman, The Second Amendment: A Biography, →ISBN, page 111:

     Reduced to its core, originalism promises that judges can ride a constitutional wayback machine, taking orders from the esteemed Founders.

   • 2014, Michael Mowbray, Shoot to Thrill: Speedlight Flash Techniques for Photographers, →ISBN:

     So let's set the wayback machine to 2009 to show an example of what I was doing back then.

派生語

• Wayback Machine