Internet Archive

<p>The Internet Archive is an American <a href="/facts/501(c)(3)_organization/4KIsNFYp">non-profit</a> organization founded in 1996 by <a href="/facts/Brewster_Kahle/0Ptbwhuu">Brewster Kahle</a> that runs a <a href="/facts/Digital_library/aBCP81In">digital library</a> website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including <a href="/facts/Website/SAsjJnca">websites</a>, <a href="/facts/Application_software/YQuj7Kog">software applications</a>, <a href="/facts/Music/wvCBQYQ3">music</a>, <a href="/facts/Audiovisual/7BPs5I28">audiovisual</a>, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a <a href="/facts/Information_wants_to_be_free/QwFsFmo3">free</a> and open <a href="/facts/Internet/Xw1rVvJU">Internet</a>. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".
</p><p>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 <a href="/facts/Web_crawler/ra7D1xyb">web crawlers</a>, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its <a href="/facts/Web_archiving/Q2cB8I0h">web archive</a>, the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a>, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts.
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Internet Archive