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{{Short description|American nonprofit digital archive}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = Internet Archive
| logo = [[File:Internet Archive logo and wordmark.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert]]
| logo_size = 194px
| logo_alt = Logo of Internet Archive
| caption = Logo of the Internet Archive
| founder = [[Brewster Kahle]]
| location = 300 Funston Ave, [[Richmond District, San Francisco|Richmond District]]<br />[[San Francisco]], California, United States<br/>{{Coord|37.782321|-122.471611|type:landmark_region:US-CA|display=title,inline}}
| chairman = Brewster Kahle
| services = {{ubl|Archive-It|[[Open Library]]|[[Wayback Machine]] (since 2001)|Netlabels|[[NASA]] Images|[[Prelinger Archives]]}}
| url = {{official URL}}
| language = English
| footnotes = 
| company_type = [[501(c)(3) organization|Nonprofit organization]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1996|05|10}}
| num_employees = {{Increase}} 169 (2022)<ref name="form990-2022">{{cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943242767/202313169349300956/full|title=Internet Archive – Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year ending Dec. 2022|date=January 31, 2024|via=[[ProPublica]] Nonprofit Explorer|access-date=February 4, 2024|archive-date=February 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204070720/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943242767/202313169349300956/full|url-status=live}}</ref>
| website_type = [[Digital library]]
| commercial = No
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1996}}
| current_status = Act<!-- DO NOT CHANGE STATUS UNLESS ENTIRE SITE IS DOWN for multiple days. isitdownrightnow.com is useful to track short duration outages. We are an encyclopedia, not a website health check with minute to minute updates. -->ive
| revenue = {{Increase}} $30.5 million (2022)<ref name="form990-2022"/>
| assets = {{Increase}} $7.3 million (2022)<ref name="form990-2022"/>
| module = {{infobox network service provider|child=yes}}
}}

[[File:Christian science church122908 02.jpg|thumb|Since late 2009, the headquarters of the Internet Archive has been the building that formerly housed the [[Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (San Francisco)|Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist]] in San Francisco, California.]]

The '''Internet Archive''' is an American [[501(c)(3) organization|non-profit]] organization founded in 1996 by [[Brewster Kahle]] that runs a [[digital library]] website, archive.org.<ref name="Found0">{{cite web|date=April 8, 2000|title= About the Archive|url=https://archive.org/about/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000408223908/https://archive.org/about/index.html|archive-date=April 8, 2000|website=Internet Archive |access-date=March 13, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Found1">{{cite web|title=archive.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/archive.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105233448/http://whois.domaintools.com/archive.org|archive-date=November 5, 2018|publisher=[[WHOIS]]|access-date=March 13, 2016}}</ref><ref name="NYT-20230813">{{cite news |last=Streitfeld |first=David |title=The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. |quote= In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now. |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html |date=August 13, 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230815104111/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html |archive-date=August 15, 2023 |access-date=August 15, 2023 }}</ref> It provides free access to collections of digitized media including [[website]]s, [[Application software|software applications]], [[music]], [[audiovisual]], and print materials. The Archive also advocates a [[Information wants to be free|free]] and open [[Internet]]. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".<ref name="Archive2024">{{Cite web |title=About IA |url=https://archive.org/about |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230714065227/https://archive.org/about |archive-date=14 July 2023 |access-date=4 February 2024 |website=Internet Archive}}</ref>

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 crawler]]s, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its [[web archiving|web archive]], the [[Wayback Machine]], contains hundreds of billions of web captures.<ref>{{cite web|title= Projects|url=https://archive.org/projects/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301174624/https://archive.org/projects/|archive-date=March 1, 2013|website=Internet Archive|access-date=March 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Grotke |first=A. |date=December 2011 |title=Web Archiving at the Library of Congress |url=http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/dec11/Grotke.shtml |magazine=[[Computers in Libraries]] |publisher=[[Information Today]] |volume=31 |pages=15–19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215201723/http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/dec11/Grotke.shtml |archive-date=December 15, 2013 |number=10}}</ref> The Archive also oversees numerous [[Internet Archive#Book collections|book digitization projects]], collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts.