The Internet Archive
is a non-profit initiative to build digital library of internet sites
and other cultural artifacts in digital form. It provided free access
to students, researchers, scholars and the general public. The
internet archive aims to provide universal access to all knowledge.
It started archiving internet resources in 1996 and now it
participating with more than 450 libraries and other agencies to
archive the resources. It has more than twenty years of web history
through the Wayback Machine .
As of April 2019 it
had archived 330 billion web pages, 20 million books and texts, 4.5
million audio recordings, 4 million videos, 3 millon images and
20,000 software programs. Any one with a free account can archive
media to the Internet Archive. Books has special attention by this
website. They atarted to digitize books in 2005 and today there are
1000 new books are uploading each day from different centers across
the globe. Books published prior to 1923 are availble for download
and modern books can be borrowed through Open
Library site.
To know more and
access ocean of knowledge visit https://archive.org/
