Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of “universal access to all knowledge. It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of public-domain books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.
The 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. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.The Archive also oversees one of the world’s largest book digitization projects.
Internet Archive (Nederlands: Internetarchief) is een website en project met als doel universele toegang te bieden tot alle menselijke kennis. Het project is begonnen door Brewster Kahle in 1996 en was gevestigd in het Presidio van San Francisco, Californië, Verenigde Staten.
Sinds november 2009 is het gehuisvest in een voormalige Christian Science-kerk in San Francisco.