The Internet Archive

Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 29+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 1,250+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages.

As our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions of other published works. Today our archive contains:

• 916 billion web pages
• 49 million books and texts
• 13 million audio recordings (including 268,000 live concerts)
• 10 million videos (including 3 million Television News programs)
• 5 million images
• 1 million software programs

Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive. We work with thousands of partners globally to save copies of their work into special collections.