Popular Culture
The concept or term "WABAC Machine," more often employed as "Wayback Machine," has been extensively adopted in popular culture as a convenient way to introduce issues or events of the past, often employing the original line "Sherman, set the WABAC machine to ...". This introduction was used by the character Kevin Flynn in the film Tron, for example. As in the original cartoon, the Wayback Machine is often invoked 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.
One example of popular usage occurred in "Goofy Ball", a 1995 episode of the TV show NewsRadio, when station owner Jimmy James (Stephen Root) says: "Dave, don't mess with a man with a Wayback Machine. I can make it so you were never born."
The Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive was named after the WABAC.
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