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Internet Archive
Type of business
Nonprofit organization
Type of site
Digital library
Available in
English
Founded
May 10, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-05-10)[1][2]
Headquarters
Richmond District San Francisco, California, United States 37°46′56″N122°28′18″W / 37.782321°N 122.471611°W / 37.782321; -122.471611
Founder(s)
Brewster Kahle
Chairman
Brewster Kahle
Services
Archive-It
Open Library
Wayback Machine (since 2001)
Netlabels
NASA Images
Prelinger Archives
Revenue
$30.5 million (2022)[3]
Total assets
$7.3 million (2022)[3]
Employees
169 (2022)[3]
URL
archive.org
Commercial
No
Launched
1996 (1996)
Current status
Active
ASN
7941
Since late 2009, the headquarters of the Internet Archive has been the building that formerly housed the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (San Francisco, California).
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.[1][2][4] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet. As of February 4, 2024[update], the Internet Archive holds more than 44 million print materials, 10.6 million videos, 1 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.8 million images, 255,000 concerts, and over 835 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine.[5] Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".[5]
The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.[6][7] The Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts.
^ ab"About the Archive". Internet Archive. April 8, 2000. Archived from the original on April 8, 2000. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
^ ab"archive.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Archived from the original on November 5, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
^ abc"Internet Archive – Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year ending Dec. 2022". January 31, 2024. Archived from the original on February 4, 2024. Retrieved February 4, 2024 – via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
^Streitfeld, David (August 13, 2023). "The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 15, 2023. Retrieved August 15, 2023. In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now.
^ ab"About IA". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on July 14, 2023. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
^"Projects". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on March 1, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
^Grotke, A. (December 2011). "Web Archiving at the Library of Congress". Computers in Libraries. Vol. 31, no. 10. Information Today. pp. 15–19. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013.
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