The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-benefit, is building an advanced library of Internet destinations and other social curios in computerized structure. Like a paper library, we give free access to scientists, history specialists, researchers, the print-impaired, and the overall population. Our central goal is to give Universal Access to All Knowledge.
We started in 1996 by chronicling the Internet itself, a medium that was simply starting to develop being used. Like papers, the substance distributed on the web was fleeting - yet not at all like papers, nobody was sparing it. Today we have 20+ long periods of web history available through the Wayback Machine and we work with 625+ library and different accomplices through our Archive-It program to recognize significant site pages.
As our web file developed, so did our responsibility of giving advanced forms of other distributed works. Today our chronicle contains:
Anybody with a free record can transfer media to the Internet Archive. We work with a huge number of accomplices all-inclusive to spare duplicates of their work into exceptional accumulations.
Since we are a library, we give unique consideration to books. Not every person approaches an open or scholarly library with a decent accumulation, so to give widespread access we have to give computerized variants of books. We started a program to digitize books in 2005 and today we check 1,000 books for each day in 28 areas around the globe. Books distributed before 1923 are accessible for download, and countless present-day books can be obtained through our Open Library webpage. A portion of our digitized books is just accessible to the print incapacitated.
Like the Internet, TV is additionally a vaporous medium. We started documenting TV programs in late 2000, and our first open TV task was a file of TV news encompassing the occasions of September 11, 2001. In 2009 we started to make chose U.S. TV news communicates accessible by inscriptions in our TV News Archive. This administration enables specialists and people, in general, to utilize TV as a citable and sharable reference.
The Internet Archive serves a huge number of individuals every day and is one of the main 300 sites on the planet. A solitary duplicate of the Internet Archive library accumulation possesses 45+ Petabytes of server space (and we store in any event 2 duplicates of everything). We are supported through gifts, awards, and by giving web documenting and book digitization administrations for our accomplices. Similarly, as with most libraries, we esteem the protection of our benefactors, so we abstain from keeping the IP (Internet Protocol) locations of our perusers and offer our website in https (secure) convention.
You can discover data about our tasks on our blog (counting significant declarations), get in touch with us, purchase swag in our store, and tail us on Twitter and Facebook. Welcome to the library!
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We started in 1996 by chronicling the Internet itself, a medium that was simply starting to develop being used. Like papers, the substance distributed on the web was fleeting - yet not at all like papers, nobody was sparing it. Today we have 20+ long periods of web history available through the Wayback Machine and we work with 625+ library and different accomplices through our Archive-It program to recognize significant site pages.
As our web file developed, so did our responsibility of giving advanced forms of other distributed works. Today our chronicle contains:
- 330 billion pages
- 20 million books and messages
- 4.5 million sound accounts (counting 180,000 live shows)
- 4 million recordings (counting 1.6 million Television News programs)
- 3 million pictures
- 200,000 programming programs
Anybody with a free record can transfer media to the Internet Archive. We work with a huge number of accomplices all-inclusive to spare duplicates of their work into exceptional accumulations.
Since we are a library, we give unique consideration to books. Not every person approaches an open or scholarly library with a decent accumulation, so to give widespread access we have to give computerized variants of books. We started a program to digitize books in 2005 and today we check 1,000 books for each day in 28 areas around the globe. Books distributed before 1923 are accessible for download, and countless present-day books can be obtained through our Open Library webpage. A portion of our digitized books is just accessible to the print incapacitated.
Like the Internet, TV is additionally a vaporous medium. We started documenting TV programs in late 2000, and our first open TV task was a file of TV news encompassing the occasions of September 11, 2001. In 2009 we started to make chose U.S. TV news communicates accessible by inscriptions in our TV News Archive. This administration enables specialists and people, in general, to utilize TV as a citable and sharable reference.
The Internet Archive serves a huge number of individuals every day and is one of the main 300 sites on the planet. A solitary duplicate of the Internet Archive library accumulation possesses 45+ Petabytes of server space (and we store in any event 2 duplicates of everything). We are supported through gifts, awards, and by giving web documenting and book digitization administrations for our accomplices. Similarly, as with most libraries, we esteem the protection of our benefactors, so we abstain from keeping the IP (Internet Protocol) locations of our perusers and offer our website in https (secure) convention.
You can discover data about our tasks on our blog (counting significant declarations), get in touch with us, purchase swag in our store, and tail us on Twitter and Facebook. Welcome to the library!
Ongoing establishment subsidizing liberally given by::
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Board of Library and Information Resources
- Majority rule government Fund
- Government Communications Commission Universal Service Program for Schools and Libraries (E-Rate)
- Establishment of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- Knight Foundation
- Laura and John Arnold Foundation
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities
- National Science Foundation
- The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation
- The Philadelphia Foundation
- Rita Allen Foundation
