The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library founded in 1996, preserves the web's history through its Wayback Machine and houses numerous cultural artifacts and websites. Located in a historic church near San Francisco, the archive captures about 100 terabytes of digital material daily, including billions of URLs through automated crawling. This extensive database represents a unique effort to document and retain nearly three decades of internet history, serving an invaluable resource for researchers, historians, and the general public.
"Those machines are servers that are being used right now to record and save material. The lights are blinking - that means that something is being written to read from those hard drives."
"Every day, about 100 terabytes of material are uploaded to the Internet Archive, or about a billion URLs, with the assistance of automated crawlers."
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