The Internet Archive is an non-profit is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library we provide free access to researchers historians scholars the print disabled and the general public. 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 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 450+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages.