Internet Archive
Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library that provides free public access to millions of books, movies, music, and archived websites. It operates the Wayback Machine, which preserves snapshots of websites over time. Users can borrow or freely access a vast range of digitized cultural and historical materials.
The Internet Archive crawls and archives web pages, digitizes physical media, and hosts user-uploaded content, making it all freely accessible through a public web interface.
general public, researchers, historians, and anyone seeking free access to digital media
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Company
- Internet Archive
- Launched
- 1996
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