42 Facts About Internet Archive

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Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge".

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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.

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The Internet Archive oversees one of the world's largest book digitization projects.

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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 May 10, 1996 at 2:42 PM.

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The nonprofit Internet Archive sought donations to cover the estimated $600, 000 in damage.

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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.

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At the Internet Archive, we are fighting to protect our readers' privacy in the digital world.

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The Internet Archive has data centers in three Californian cities: San Francisco, Redwood City, and Richmond.

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9.

Internet Archive capitalized on the popular use of the term "WABAC Machine" from a segment of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon, and uses the name "Wayback Machine" for its service that allows archives of the World Wide Web to be searched and accessed.

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In September 2020, the Internet Archive announced a partnership with Cloudflare to automatically index websites served via its "Always Online" services.

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Internet Archive-It allows the user to customize their capture or exclusion of web content they want to preserve for cultural heritage reasons.

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In September 2020 Internet Archive announced a new initiative to archive and preserve open access academic journals, called Internet Archive Scholar.

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In 2021, the Internet Archive announced the initial version of the General Index, a publicly available index to a collection of 107 million academic journal articles.

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Internet Archive operates 33 scanning centers in five countries, digitizing about 1, 000 books a day for a total of more than 2 million books, financially supported by libraries and foundations.

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Around October 2007, Internet Archive users began uploading public domain books from Google Book Search.

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The Internet Archive ensured the items were attributed and linked back to Google, which never complained, while libraries "grumbled".

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Besides books, the Internet Archive offers free and anonymous public access to more than four million court opinions, legal briefs, or exhibits uploaded from the United States Federal Courts' PACER electronic document system via the RECAP web browser plugin.

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Audio Internet Archive is an audio archive that includes music, audiobooks, news broadcasts, old time radio shows, and a wide variety of other audio files.

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Live Music Internet Archive sub-collection includes more than 170, 000 concert recordings from independent musicians, as well as more established artists and musical ensembles with permissive rules about recording their concerts, such as the Grateful Dead, and more recently, The Smashing Pumpkins.

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Internet Archive has a collection of freely distributable music that is streamed and available for download via its Netlabels service.

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21.

Internet Archive holds a collection of approximately 3, 863 feature films.

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22.

Additionally, the Internet Archive's Moving Image collection includes: newsreels, classic cartoons, pro- and anti-war propaganda, The Video Cellar Collection, Skip Elsheimer's "A.

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23.

In 2013, the Internet Archive received an additional donation of "approximately 40, 000 well-organized tapes" from the estate of a Philadelphia woman, Marion Stokes.

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Internet Archive has "the largest collection of historical software online in the world", spanning 50 years of computer history in terabytes of computer magazines and journals, books, shareware discs, FTP sites, video games, etc.

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The Internet Archive has created an archive of what it describes as "vintage software", as a way to preserve them.

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In November 2020, the Internet Archive introduced a new emulator for Adobe Flash called Ruffle, and began archiving Flash animations and games ahead of the December 31, 2020 end-of-life for the Flash plugin across all computer systems.

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From 2012 to November 2015, the Internet Archive operated the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, a federal credit union based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with the goal of providing access to low- and middle-income people.

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On May 8, 2008, it was revealed that the Internet Archive had successfully challenged an FBI national security letter asking for logs on an undisclosed user.

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29.

Internet Archive blacked out its web site for 12 hours on January 18, 2012, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act bills, two pieces of legislation in the United States Congress that they claimed would "negatively affect the ecosystem of web publishing that led to the emergence of the Internet Archive".

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Internet Archive is a member of the Open Book Alliance, which has been among the most outspoken critics of the Google Book Settlement.

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31.

In February 2016, Internet Archive users had begun archiving digital copies of Nintendo Power, Nintendo's official magazine for their games and products, which ran from 1988 to 2012.

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The HTTP version of the Internet Archive was blocked but it remained accessible using the HTTPS protocol.

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On October 9, 2016, the Internet Archive was temporarily blocked in Turkey after it was used by hackers to host 17 GB of leaked government emails.

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34.

Chris Butler, from the Internet Archive, responded that they regularly spoke to the US and EU governments about sharing information on terrorism.

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35.

The Internet Archive rejected the request, saying that the reports were wrong about the content they pointed to, or were too broad for the organization to comply with.

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36.

At launch, the Internet Archive allowed authors and rightholders to submit opt-out requests for their works to be omitted from the National Emergency Library.

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Internet Archive said the National Emergency Library addressed an "unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research material" due to the closures of physical libraries worldwide.

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The Internet Archive continued implementing their controlled digital lending policy that predated the National Emergency Library, meaning they still encrypted the lent copies and it was no easier for users to create new copies of the books than before.

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Morally, they pointed out that the Internet Archive was a registered library like any other, that they either paid for the books themselves or received them as donations, and that lending through libraries predated copyright restrictions.

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However, the Internet Archive had already been criticized by authors and publishers for its prior lending approach, and upon announcement of the National Emergency Library, authors, publishers, and groups representing both took further issue, equating the move to copyright infringement and digital piracy, and using the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to push the boundaries of copyright.

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The plaintiffs, supported by the Copyright Alliance, claimed in their lawsuit that the Internet Archive's actions constituted a "willful mass copyright infringement".

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42.

On 30 September 2021, as a part of its 25th anniversary celebration, Internet Archive launched the "Wayforward Machine", a pseudo-satirical or fictional website covered with pop-ups asking for personal information.

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