"This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor "three decades of safeguarding the world's online heritage," the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be "Internet Archive Day." The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.),"
"The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive's "Open Library." "We survived," Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. "But it wiped out the Library.""
The Wayback Machine reached its trillionth archived webpage, drawing participation from library partners and hundreds of thousands of daily users. San Francisco declared October 22 Internet Archive Day and the Archive received designation as a federal depository to expand access to government publications. The organization recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened bankruptcy and resulted in removal of more than 500,000 books from Open Library. Those losses gutted much of the Library and reduced public access to digitized works. The archive currently faces no major active lawsuits and is pursuing new ideas to rebuild and expand archival access.
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