A Message from Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle
Dear Patron,
Now more than ever before, we need your help. For more than 25 years, the Internet Archive has collected, preserved, and shared our digital cultural artifacts. Thanks to the generosity of our patrons, we've grown from a small preservation project into a vast library that serves millions of people each year. Our work has impacted the lives of so many of our users who value free and open access to information.
From the beginning, it was important for the Internet Archive to be a nonprofit, because it was working for the people. Its motives had to be transparent; it had to last a long time. That's why we don't charge for access, sell user data, or run ads, even while we offer free resources to citizens everywhere. We rely on the generosity of individuals like you to pay for servers, staff, and preservation projects.
Over the next few decades, we'll face a very different set of challenges. We may not have achieved Universal Access to All Knowledge yet, but we still can. As we continue to grow, we can preserve writings from not a hundred million people, but from a billion people. We can have platforms and systems that are driven by altruism, not advertising models. We can have a world with many winners, where people participate, learn, and find new communities. I believe we can build this future together.
If you can't imagine a future without the Internet Archive, please consider supporting our work. We promise to put your donation to good use as we continue to store over 99 petabytes of data, including 625 billion webpages, 38 million books and texts, and 14 million audio recordings.
If you find our site useful, please chip in! Your support will help us build the web we deserve.
Thank you for joining me.
Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian
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