The Internet Archive is an online digital library based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1996 with the stated mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” The archive enables ...
The world’s most famous digital library has suffered a series of cyber-attacks that rendered its site, including its Wayback Machine, temporarily unavailable and exposed the data of 31 million users.
Update, 11:58 p.m. ET: The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle wrote a short blog post about what happened. The website was getting tens of thousands of requests per second from someone using AWS, ...
What’s online doesn’t necessarily last forever. Content on the Internet is revised and deleted all the time. Hyperlinks “rot,” and with them goes history, lost in space. With that in mind, Brewster ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Brewster Khale, the founder of Internet Archive, about the attack by hackers that put the archive offline for days — and what may have happened if it had succeeded.
As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives to keep growing online access to books recently shrank by about 500,000 ...