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Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive in May 1996. He launched it around the same time he started the commercial web-crawling company Alexa Internet, with the stated mission of providing "universal access to all knowledge".
The Wayback Machine reached one trillion archived web pages, announced at an event in San Francisco on the 22nd of October 2025. That total amounts to more than 100,000 terabytes of data.
Beginning on the 9th of October 2024, attackers defaced the Internet Archive website, launched DDoS attacks, and stole data from approximately 31 million user accounts, including email addresses and Bcrypt-hashed passwords. A separate group also breached the Archive's Zendesk email support platform on the 20th of October using unrotated API tokens. Full service was restored by the 25th of October 2024.
Judge Koeltl ruled against the Internet Archive on the 24th of March 2023. The negotiated judgment of the 11th of August 2023 barred the Archive from lending books that had electronic copies on sale. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the ruling on the 4th of September 2024, and over 500,000 books were taken down as a result.
The Great 78 Project aims to digitize 78 rpm singles and phonograph cylinders recorded between 1880 and 1960. Developed with the Archive of Contemporary Music and George Blood Audio, it had digitized 400,000 recordings as of September 2025. The project was sued for $621 million by Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Concord in August 2023; both parties settled in September 2025.
The Archive stores data at centers in San Francisco, Redwood City, and Richmond, California, as well as at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and a facility in Amsterdam. As of 2025 it operated six data centers, with smaller facilities in other U.S. states, Canada, and Europe, all conforming to ISO/IEC 27001 standards. Since 2020 it has also stored content on the Filecoin decentralized network.