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Dear Patron,
You have come to the Internet Archive in search of knowledge, or perhaps to find a part of the Web you may have lost. For 20 years through the Wayback Machine, we’ve backed you up. Now we ask for your help in return.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library with a huge mission: to give everyone access to all knowledge. By making a tax-deductible donation today, you can ensure that everyone has free and open access to information, forever.
The history of libraries is one of loss. Libraries like ours are susceptible to different fault lines: earthquakes, legal regimes, institutional failure.
So this year, we have set a new goal: to create a copy of Internet Archive’s digital collections in another country. We are building the Internet Archive of Canada because lots of copies keeps stuff safe. We estimate this will cost $5 million. With your support, we are more than halfway there. We have the opportunity to build the digital library of the future. A place where you can go to read, learn and explore. A place where your personal information remains private.
In the Wayback Machine, we’re saving 750 million Web pages each week. People download 20 million books on our site each month. The key is to keep improving—and to keep it free. That’s where you can help us.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library built on trust. Reader privacy is very important to us, so we don’t run ads that track your behavior. We don’t even keep your IP address. But we still need to pay for the increasing costs of servers, staff and rent.
If you find our services useful, please consider donating $25, $50, $75 or whatever you can afford.
Help us do more. I promise you—It will be money well spent.
Thank you.
Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian
Please make a tax-deductible donation now.
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The Internet Archive is a California non-profit public benefit corporation that is tax-exempt under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. Federal Tax ID Number 94-3242767.
Technology: We preserve 750 million Web pages per week! We’ve saved 26 petabytes (that’s 26,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data. That takes a lot of servers, bandwidth and power. The cost of storing information in our data centers is a fraction of the cost of Amazon Cloud.
Staff: Most top websites employ huge staffs. We employ 150 people around the world—engineers, archivists, librarians and book scanners. Most of our staff could be making much more at a company driven by profit, but they choose to work for a nonprofit powered by a huge mission.
Projects: This year we are launching a new initiative to create a secure, private copy of our data across the border in Canada. Help us!
The Internet Archive is a US 501c3 non-profit organization. Our tax ID number is 94-3242767. Your gift is tax deductible to the full extent provided by the law.