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| Type of business | Nonprofit organization |
|---|---|
Type of site | Digital library |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | May 10, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Richmond District San Francisco, California, United States 37°46′56″N 122°28′18″W / 37.782321°N 122.471611°W |
| Founder(s) | Brewster Kahle |
| Chairman | Brewster Kahle |
| Services |
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| Revenue |  $30.5 million (2022)[1] |
| Total assets | $7.3 million (2022)[1] |
| Employees | 169 (2022)[1] |
| URL | archive |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 1996 |
| Current status | Active |
| ASN | 7941 |
The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org.[2][3][4] It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a free and open Internet. 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.
- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ "About the Archive". Internet Archive. April 8, 2000. Archived from the original on April 8, 2000. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ "archive.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Archived from the original on November 5, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.