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Internet Archive 25th Anniversary – Universal Access to All Knowledge

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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine , providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: Archive Team: URLs

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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20210721161722/https://anniversary.archive.org/

Celebrating the Builders & the Dreamers

As the Internet Archive turns 25, we invite you on a journey from way back to way forward, through the pivotal moments when knowledge became more accessible for all.

From the Library of Alexandria to Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press; from the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right to information to the creation of the World Wide Web, access to knowledge has always been thanks to the builders and the dreamers.

Now, go way back with us to 1996 when a young computer scientist named Brewster Kahle dreamed of building a “Library of Everything” for the digital age. A library containing all the published works of humankind, free to the public, and structured as a nonprofit to last the ages. He named this digital library the Internet Archive. Its mission: to provide everyone with “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”

Read Brewster's reflections on this 25 year milestone

Join our Virtual Celebration

Come celebrate with us, no matter where you are in the world.

From Wayback to Way Forward: The Internet Archive at 25

A virtual journey with the builders and dreamers who have reached for the stars.
Thursday, October 21 at 6 PM PT (9 PM ET)

Attend our virtual event

Key Moments in Access to Knowledge

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BCE

2021

7th
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BCE

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The world’s oldest library is founded in Mesopotamia

2nd
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BCE

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Parchment is invented in Pergamon

400

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Buddhism’s Diamond Sutra appears in Chinese translation

Dec
15

1791

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The First Amendment is adopted in America

1833

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The first US tax-supported public library is established

1969

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The Supreme Court rules that the right to information is fundamental

1971

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The first ebook is created by Project Gutenberg

1989

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web

Oct

1996

Internet Archive crawlers capture first web pages, including MTV

1996

Brewster Kahle founds the Internet Archive

Dec
30

2000

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Rick Prelinger establishes the Internet Archive’s first moving image collection

Oct
11

2001

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Internet Archive establishes the 9/11 Television News Archive

Oct
24

2001

Wayback Machine unveiled at the University of California at Berkeley

Oct
9

2002

Internet Bookmobile arrives at the Supreme Court for Eldred vs. Ashcroft

Nov
5

2005

Internet Archive launches Archive-it web archiving service

Jul
16

2007

Aaron Swartz announces launch of Open Library

Apr
7

2010

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Internet Archive & Princeton University make federal court records freely available

May
6

2010

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Internet Archive makes 1 million books freely available to people with print disabilities

Feb
22

2011

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Library coalition develops lending collection of more than 80,000 ebooks

Apr
24

2012

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Brewster Kahle is inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame

Sep
18

2012

Internet Archive launches the TV News Archive

Oct
25

2012

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10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of cultural material archived

Oct
24

2013

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Internet Archive launches Historical Software Archive

Jun
7-9

2016

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Internet Archive hosts the world’s first Decentralized Web Summit

Feb
25

2020

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Brave browser adds one-click access to Wayback Machine captures

Mar
24

2020

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In response to Covid-19 shutdowns, Internet Archive launches National Emergency Library

Jun
1

2020

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Four publishers sue the Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library

Dec
31

2020

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Internet Archive lending collection reaches 2 million modern books

Mar
9

2021

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Internet Archive launches Internet Archive Scholar

Every Collection Tells a Story

Ways to Join in the Fun

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Support our work

In 25 years, the Internet Archive and our community has accomplished so much. Together, we have built a world class library on the Internet. It’s all possible thanks to patrons around the world who are curious, generous, and preservation-minded, just like you.

If the Internet Archive has helped you over the last 25 years, that’s reason to celebrate! Please support our work.

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