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The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that builds a digital library of websites and other cultural artifacts to provide universal access to knowledge. It began in 1996 by archiving websites and now has over 26 years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine. The archive also contains over 735 billion web pages, 41 million books, 14.7 million audio recordings, 8.4 million videos, and other materials. Anyone can upload content and the archive works with partners around the world to preserve important works digitally.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that builds a digital library of websites and other cultural artifacts to provide universal access to knowledge. It began in 1996 by archiving websites and now has over 26 years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine. The archive also contains over 735 billion web pages, 41 million books, 14.7 million audio recordings, 8.4 million videos, and other materials. Anyone can upload content and the archive works with partners around the world to preserve important works digitally.

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Internet Archive: About IA https://archive.

org/about/

About the Internet Archive


The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building
a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural
artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide
free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people
with print disabilities, and the general public. Our
mission is to provide Universal Access to All
Knowledge.

We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a


medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like
newspapers, the content published on the web was
ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 26+ years of web history
accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 1,000+ library and other partners through our
Archive-It program to identify important web pages.

As our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions of other published works.
Today our archive contains:

735 billion web pages


41 million books and texts
14.7 million audio recordings (including 240,000 live concerts)
8.4 million videos (including 2.4 million Television News programs)
4.4 million images
890,000 software programs

Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive. We work with thousands of partners
globally to save copies of their work into special collections.

Because we are a library, we pay special attention to books. Not everyone has access to a public or
academic library with a good collection, so to provide universal access we need to provide digital versions
of books. We began a program to digitize books in 2005 and today we scan 4,300 books per day in 18
locations around the world. Books published prior to 1927 are available for download, and hundreds of
thousands of modern books can be borrowed through our Open Library site. One of the Internet Archive's
missions is to serve people who have difficulty interacting with physical books, so most of our digitized
books are available to people with print disabilities (learn about access here).

Like the Internet, television is also an ephemeral medium. We began archiving television programs in late
2000, and our first public TV project was an archive of TV news surrounding the events of September 11,
2001. In 2009 we began to make selected U.S. television news broadcasts searchable by captions in our
TV News Archive. This service allows researchers and the public to use television as a citable and sharable
reference.

The Internet Archive serves millions of people each day and is one of the top 300 web sites in the world. A
single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 99+ Petabytes of server space (and we store
at least 2 copies of everything). We are funded through donations, grants, and by providing web archiving
and book digitization services for our partners. As with most libraries we value the privacy of our patrons, so
we avoid keeping the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of our readers and offer our site in https (secure)
protocol.

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