Internet Archive

Internet Archive
Internet Archive logo
Company typeNonprofit organization
Website type
Digital library
Available inEnglish
FoundedMay 10, 1996 (1996-05-10)
Headquarters
FounderBrewster Kahle
ChairpersonBrewster Kahle
Services
RevenueIncrease $26.8 million (2024)
Total assetsDecrease $10.7 million (2024)
EmployeesDecrease 122 (2021)
Websitearchive.org Edit this at Wikidata
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CommercialNo
Launched1996 (1996)
Current statusActive
ASN7941
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The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. 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".

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. The Wayback Machine, its web archive, contains more than 1 trillion web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. The archive is used frequently by journalists and Wikipedia editors.