Category Archives: Announcements

“Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth” published in Wired Magazine.   Thank you to writer Matt Simon, and photographer Ariel Zambelich for the nice piece and non-typical images.  

We are thankful to the Arcadia Foundation for funding a project derive and evaluate digital tape and hard drive preservation practices.    We have used DLT tapes and offline hard drives for over a decade to cost effectively store video files.   … Continue reading →

The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons … Continue reading →

Some think of the Internet Archive as just the Wayback Machine, but we have other great collections.   Our music collection is worth listening to and made some jumps recently: Our live music collection now has over 100,000 concerts from over … Continue reading →

In celebration of IPv6 Day, we are happy to demonstrate our first step into the IPv6 world. We set up a special static web site that is only accessible over IPv6. We will use this as our test bed to … Continue reading →

(brewster is in fashionable white) Brewster Kahle is honored to be inducted today into the newly formed Internet Hall of Fame administrated by the Internet Society.  As the Society that administers much of the Internet turns 20 years old, they have … Continue reading →

We just hit a milestone: 100,000 free concert recordings from over 5,200 bands! A fun trip through the history: The Grateful Dead started a tradition in the 60′s to allow taping of their concerts and sharing those tapes as long as … Continue reading →

On the front page of the Sunday, March 4th New York Times is an article about the Physical Archive of the Internet Archive titled “In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books” by David Streitfeld of … Continue reading →

The Internet Archive believes that it is critical to protest and raise awareness of pending legislation in the United States:  House Bill 3261, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S.968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Archive.org is going dark … Continue reading →

Dear Supporters of the Archive, In the last year, the number of people using the Internet Archive has increased to two million people every day, and our collections of free books, music, video, and web pages have also grown by … Continue reading →