Archive.org

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  • The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization and an Internet library, a permanent collection of digital information published on the Web, including text, audio, video, software and archived web pages.

    The purpose of the Archive is to assist historians and other scholars in their research, as well as to provide the general public with a free access to digital age historical records.

    Currently, the Archive runs on Unix/ Linux based architecture, and making a full use of it requires some programming skills. The Wayback Machine is one of the tools developed to provide easy-to-use access to individual Web pages. Work is underway on developing an interface that will provide users with an easy access to entire data collection, including Web snapshots and Usenet postings.

    The Internet Archive is a member of the American Library Association.

  • History

    The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

    Prior to his work on the Archive, Kahle invented WAIS, the Internet's first publishing system, and in 1996 he co-founded Alexa Internet together with Bruce Gilliat.

    The Archive has been steadily expanding ever since its inception, and it currently has data centers in San Francisco, Redwood City and Mountain View, containing an estimated 3 petabytes of data, and growing at a rate of 100 terabytes per month.

    In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, hosted by a Sun Modular Datacenter, California.

  • Community and Culture

    With its ca 70 employees, the Internet Archive is a relatively small organization, but it's involved in a variety of activities, ranging from data cataloging, internet mapping, copyrights, privacy and freedom of speech issues, cooperating with organizations such as Alexa Internet, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, among others.

  • Competitors

    • Project Gutenberg
    • The Internet Public Library
    • The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program
    • National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
    • Alexa Internet
    • Ourmedia
    • WebCite

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