SAN FRANCISCO — If you've ever clicked on a hyperlink that's taken you to something called the Wayback Machine to view an old web page, you've been introduced to the Internet Archive. The nonprofit, ...

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Internet Archive — the no-cost, nonprofit digital library that has become embroiled in the nationwide battle over copyrights and free speech — is now an official source for government documents.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive (IA) website jumped into the breach. On March 24, 2020, it launched the National Emergency ...

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...

Though we sometimes imagine websites as floating around in the ether, we typically picture their physical forms as banks of servers. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive, one of the most regularly visited ...

Recap: It has been more than 26 years since the Internet Archive set about preserving all sorts of digital material including software, games, movies, images and of course, web pages. The Wayback ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. At the end of this article, you will find explanations of the ...

The Internet Archive, also known as The Wayback Machine, suffered an outage around midnight east coast time on August 25th. Disappointed fans around the world who were unable to access the site ...