tonight at nine on cnn and next day on the cnn app. >> all right. to thumb through the pages of a good book. well, you can check it out maybe at your local library. but what if you're looking for a page from the web or the internet archive team has been preserving internet history for nearly 30 years now, and cnn went inside to see their innovations for the a.i. age just blocks. >> away. >> from the presidio in san. >> francisco sits a. >> century old former church. >> but what. >> was once. >> a house of. >> god is the holy grail. >> of internet history. >> the internet. >> archive saving. >> a record of the web. >> one page at a. >> time, and now innovating for. >> the a.i. future. there's a bit of a symbolism of having a church be the. headquarters for the internet archive. >> i think of it actually with. >> the pillars. >> the the idea of. >> the permanence. >> it's a. reference to. the library of alexandria, which was a great. project of the egyptians and the. >> greeks to build. >> all knowledge. of course, now that place is the internet. >> brewster kahle started the internet archive in 1996, when a year's worth of websites was just two terabytes, which could easily fit on just one of these hard drives now the hum of servers fills the stained, glass adorned sanctuary, where 150tb worth of the internet are saved every day. >> so every time a light blinks is either somebody's upload or. >> something, or. >> downloading something from the internet. >> archive. this year, the trump administration deleted thousands of government web pages when everything from health policies to achievements by minority military members disappeared, the internet archive was able to help show and preserve what had been removed. >> this change was huge. >> whole sections. >> of the web came down. they have a new point of view and that's why we have libraries to go and have the record. >> do you ever feel. >> that what the internet archive is doing is preserving truth? >> the internet archive preserves a record, and whether it's true or not is actually for others to interpret. >> to protect against future threats, both physical and political. the internet archive has copies of its servers in multiple locations around the world. >> are you concerned at all that you guys will be targeted at some point? >> let's go and make it so that there is different points of view stored and made permanently accessible in different environments. so libraries have always been under attack. now more than during my lifetime. but let's go. and live up to the moment. >> we're seeing the rise of a.i. should be recording something that was created by a.i. and the same way we record things that were created by humans. >> we're starting some experimental programs because so many people are turning to the chat bots as a news source. and so they're going and just typing these things in. it's a preliminary project still to go and record. what did the different chat bots say about the current affairs? so we want a record of our times. and this is just another aspect of it. >> and they don't just save web pages, libraries, museums, or really anyone can ask the team to digitize and help preserve physical records such as music, tv and books this is 1947. >> we had electricity already. let me show you what happened in 1927. >> so this is what. >> 1927 sounded like books are carefully photographed page by page, digitized and posted online. here we go. >> even entire vintage video games are preserved, playable without the need of old consoles. >> my browser is going to. >> be running a javascript. ibm pc and using the internet archive as a giant floppy drive. >> the archive has recently emerged from years of legal battles over copyright claims, and is celebrating saving more than 1 trillion web pages, meeting their fans and supporters offline. >> there are a lot of people that are just passionate about the cause. there's a cyberpunk atmosphere. >> yeah. >> in this day and age, when truth. >> is. >> becoming increasingly. >> hard to. >> find. >> it's nice to have a hard copy of something that was. >> actually out there. >> a party they hope to host again with the next trillion