Internet Archive
| Type of business | Nonprofit organization |
|---|---|
Type of site | Digital library |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | May 10, 1996 |
| Headquarters | 300 Funston Ave, 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 | $23.7 million (2023) |
| Total assets | $16.6 million (2023) |
| Employees | 122 (2021) |
| 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. 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. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, 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.