The staff at the Internet Archive is fond of Raiders of the Lost Ark, thanks in no small part to the film’s famous final scene. A lowly worker wheeling a crate — which just happens to contain the ...

This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving the internet through the Wayback Machine, which allows users to see how websites looked in the past.

Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” ...

The Internet Archive, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has served as a public repository for all things digital for more than 20 years, has revealed plans to create a backup of its vast ...

Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons. Visitors to NASA on The Commons ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and ...

The Internet Archive is a treasure trove for software geeks. In recent months, the site has hosted everything from GIFs from Geocities to Macintosh games from the 80s. Its latest blast from the past ...

Nuala Creed, the artist behind a collection of ceramic sculptures of archivists, sits next to her works in the Great Room of the Internet Archive. Photo by Junyao Yang on Jan. 7, 2025. The Great Room ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Perhaps the first and most important detail to understand about the ...