Head Office
Internet Archive
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
United States
Phone: 415-561-6767
Customer Service
Email: info@archive.org
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About Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a popular digital library with millions of books, movies and audio files. The non-profit digital library is accessible on Archive.org and is visited by millions each day. Launched in 1996, Internet Archive was founded by entrepreneur Brewster Kahle. It operates from its headquarters at San Francisco, California. The stats published on the website reveal that it contains more than 330 million web pages, 20 million books/texts, 3 million images, 4 million videos, 4 million audio recordings and 200,000 software programs. Additionally, more than 20 years of web history is accessible through Wayback Machine tool. Each day Archive scans more than 1,000 books from 28 locations around the world. One of the top 300 most popular websites in the world, Internet Archive is accessible for anyone with a free account. Some of the digitized books and videos, including academic library is not accessible for general public.
Funded through donations and grants, Internet Archive’s main projects include Political TV Ad Archive, Open Library, Archive-It, Wayback Machine, and BookServer. The Open Library has been among the most popular. It is a digital lending library with more than 2 million ebooks that can be read or downloaded. Another key project has been the Wayback Machine which contains over 150 billion web captures. The data includes 200+ million websites. Archive-It allows users to capture, manage and search collections of digital content without hosting the same.
On Archive.org homepage you can see the top collections. Users can filter by subject, year, media type and language. If you want to explore website history, you can use the search to input a URL and see snapshots. The snapshots mention the year, month and time. It displays the content and design when it archived the same. Use the Advanced Search tool to look for free books, documentaries, music, software and more. You can narrow search by title, creator, collection, date and media type. Users can also upload files such as audio recordings, videos and images. There are help guides available online to help you through process.
Interested in working with Internet Archive? Explore the various job opportunities and volunteer work with the company on the Jobs section. For more information or queries on registration, advertisement, privacy queries, or others, reach the Internet Archive support.
