What does the Internet Archive mean, and what is its mission?

The Internet Archive announced yesterday (Internet Archive) For adding information checks to archive pages Wayback Machine Digital renewed content on the Internet to explain the reasons for removing pages, if you did not hear about him before and do not know what his mission is and where he is located, the following lines can help you:

What is the Internet Archive

A non-profit organization operating in the United States, its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, and from 1996 to 2009, the headquarters were in Presidio, San Francisco, and since 2009, the headquarters were in 300 Funston Avenue In San Francisco, formerly Christian Science Church.

The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the mission of universal access to all knowledge. It provides free public access to digital collections of materials, including websites, software applications, games, music, films, videos, animations, and millions of books.

In addition to the archiving function, the Internet Archive is an active organization that advocates the freedom and openness of the Internet. The Internet Archive currently contains more than 20 million books and texts, 3 million films and videos, 400,000 software programs, 7 million audio files, and 463 billion web pages Wayback Machine.

Internet Archive mission

The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material into its own dataset, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers. web crawlers, Which works to preserve as much of the public web as possible.

Its web archive contains, The Wayback MachineWith hundreds of billions of web operations, the archive also oversees one of the largest book digitization projects in the world.

At one point, most of the Internet Archive employees were employed by book survey centers, and as of 2019, the survey is being conducted by 100 paid operators worldwide.

The archive contains data centers in three cities in California, which are San Francisco, Redwood City and Richmond. To prevent data loss in the event of a natural disaster, the archive tries to create copies in remote locations, including currently the Library of Alexandria in Egypt and a facility in Amsterdam.