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1. #THE WAY BACK MACHINE ARCHIVE#
2. #THE WAY BACK MACHINE SOFTWARE#
3. #THE WAY BACK MACHINE DOWNLOAD#
4. #THE WAY BACK MACHINE FREE#

In November 2016, Kahle announced that the Internet Archive was building the Internet Archive of Canada, a copy of the Archive to be based somewhere in Canada. Īn overhaul of the site was launched as beta in November 2014, and the legacy layout was removed in March 2016. The nonprofit Archive sought donations to cover the estimated $600,000 in damage. According to the Archive, it lost a side-building housing one of 30 of its scanning centers cameras, lights, and scanning equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and "maybe 20 boxes of books and film, some irreplaceable, most already digitized, and some replaceable". On November 6, 2013, the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco's Richmond District caught fire, destroying equipment and damaging some nearby apartments. This method is the fastest means of downloading media from the Archive, as files are served from two Archive data centers, in addition to other torrent clients which have downloaded and continue to serve the files.

#THE WAY BACK MACHINE DOWNLOAD#

In August 2012, the Archive announced that it has added BitTorrent to its file download options for more than 1.3 million existing files, and all newly uploaded files. The Archive's mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars. Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form. Without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture and heritage. Soon after that, the Archive began working to provide specialized services relating to the information access needs of the print-disabled publicly accessible books were made available in a protected Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) format. It hosts a number of other projects: the NASA Images Archive, the contract crawling service Archive-It, and the wiki-editable library catalog and book information site Open Library. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software. In late 1999, the Archive expanded its collections beyond the web archive, beginning with the Prelinger Archives.

The archived content first became available to the general public in 2001, when it developed the Wayback Machine. In October of that year, the Internet Archive had begun to archive and preserve the World Wide Web in large quantities, though it saved the earliest known page on at 2:42 PM.

Headquarters in Building 116 of the Presidio of San Francisco in 2008īrewster Kahle founded the Archive in May 1996 around the same time that he began the for-profit web crawling company Alexa Internet.

#THE WAY BACK MACHINE SOFTWARE#

As of September 10, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine.

#THE WAY BACK MACHINE FREE#

In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". Since late 2009, the headquarters of the Internet Archive has been the building that formerly housed the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (San Francisco, California).