The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creation
Brewster Kahle is a librarian by training and temperament. In the mid-1990s, when many saw the nascent World Wide Web as a place to sell things, he saw it as data that cried out to be preserved and cataloged. Later, he widened his scope to include material — film, books, music — that was not native to the web but could be digitally gathered there.
By most standards, Mr. Kahle has been pretty successful. The Internet Archive serves from two to three million visitors a day with such tools as the Wayback Machine, which provides snapshots of 435 billion Web pages saved over time. The archive has seven million texts (you could call them books), 2.1 million audio recordings, and 1.8 million videos. It is an immense library.
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WARNING: You might get lost in the vastness of this resource. This is a good place to store public docs and media and then link to your site. Licence them as "prohibited for commercial use". Remember to make labels and tags. Yes, this is real, Pete. Yes it is free but relies on your financial donations. It's a charity after all.
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