The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that provides free access to digitized materials. The archive includes web pages, books, audio recordings, images, software programs, and much more. These collections are held on over 70 Petabytes of server space. The organization relies on donations to keep the archive going. Donations are not recorded and the website uses HTTPS to ensure that no one can track your IP address.
You can contribute text, photographs, and videos to the Internet Archive. The archive does not require permission to upload files or images, but it does ask you to share files you own. There are no usage restrictions or loan periods, but it does state in its Terms of Use that it will remove content in violation of copyright, and it will terminate the accounts of repeat offenders. While the site’s policies are very similar to those of other file sharing sites, it should be noted that the Internet Archives is not a substitute for the copyrighted content of third parties.
In 1996, Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive. He was a teen at the time and was very interested in how the world was evolving. He spent the next few years making the archive a success, and now the site holds more than 34 million books, 766,196 movies, 815,791 software programs, and 14,133,383 audio files. The site also contains nearly 2 billion web pages and over 1,259 million media collections.
