The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls.
At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer.
View the web archive through the Wayback Machine.
Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from October 2010
TIMESTAMPS
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20110106181259/http://www.searchengineoptimising.com/glossary/glossary-of-computer-and-internet-terms/ftp
FTP( File Transfer Protocol) is a standardised method of file transference between computers that have very different operating systems. The FTP is part of the application layer that is within the Internet protocol suite.