
#FLICKR GALLERY VINTAGE EPHEMERA ARCHIVE#
Television programs in late 2000, and our first public TV project was an archive Like the Internet, television is also an ephemeral medium. One of the Internet Archive's missions is to serve people who have difficulty interacting with physical books, so most of our digitizedīooks are available to people with print disabilities (learn about access here). Books published prior to 1927 are available forĭownload, and hundreds of thousands of modern books can be borrowed through our Open Library site. Program to digitize books in 2005 and today we scan 4,300 books per day in 18 Universal access we need to provide digital versions of books. Not everyone hasĪccess to a public or academic library with a good collection, so to provide We work with thousands of partners globally to save copies of their work intoīecause we are a library, we pay special attention to books. Machine and we work with 1,000+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identifyĪs our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions Of web history accessible through the Wayback Like newspapers, the content published on the web wasĮphemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was justīeginning to grow in use. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians,



The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building aĭigital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
