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/20110106205716/http://www.searchengineoptimising.com/glossary/glossary-of-computer-and-internet-terms/portal
A Portal is the initial starting point that can be used to access other areas of the Internet or Intranet, on the Intranet they are know as EIP (Enterprise Information Portals).