<html><div>Some of the New Yorker discussion group went to the Internet Archive's Funston Avenue location for a tour and came back raving about it.</div>
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<div>I gather that it is trying to digitalize virtually everything on the web and in print, but am not certain about that.</div>
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<div>The organization, a non profit, that describes itself on its web page thus:</div>
<div><strong>Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. </strong></div>
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<div><strong>Wikipedia describes it as follows:</strong></div>
<div>The <strong>Internet Archive</strong> is a <a title="San Francisco" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco">San Francisco</a>–based nonprofit <a title="Digital library" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library">digital library</a> with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As of October 2016, its collection topped 15 <a title="Petabyte" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte">petabytes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.</div>
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<div>The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the <a title="Wayback Machine" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, contains over 150 billion web captures.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> The Archive also oversees one of the world's largest book digitization projects.</div>
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<div>Founded by <a title="Brewster Kahle" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle">Brewster Kahle</a> in May 1996, the Archive is a <a class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(3)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29%283%29">501(c)(3)</a> nonprofit operating in the United States. It has an annual budget of $10 million, derived from a variety of sources: revenue from its <a title="Web crawler" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler">Web crawling</a> services, various partnerships, grants, donations, and the Kahle-Austin Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup></div>
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<div>Its headquarters are in <a class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California">San Francisco</a>, <a title="California" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California">California</a>, where about 30 of its 200 employees work<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<em><a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2015)">citation needed</span></a></em>]</sup>. Most of its staff work in its book-scanning centers. The Archive has <a title="Data center" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center">data centers</a> in three Californian cities, San Francisco, <a title="Redwood City, California" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_City,_California">Redwood City</a>, and <a title="Richmond, California" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_California">Richmond</a>.</div>
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<div>To prevent losing the data in case of e.g. a natural disaster, the Archive attempts to create copies of (parts of) the collection at more distant locations, currently including the <a title="Bibliotheca Alexandrina" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina">Bibliotheca Alexandrina</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> in <a title="Egypt" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt">Egypt</a> and a facility in <a title="Amsterdam" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> The Archive is a member of the <a title="International Internet Preservation Consortium" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Internet_Preservation_Consortium">International Internet Preservation Consortium</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> and was officially designated as a library by the State of <a title="California" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California">California</a> in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#cite_note-13">[13</a></sup></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><hr size="1"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></strong> "bcbloch@juno.com" <bcbloch@juno.com><br> <strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></strong> info@archive.org <br> <strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></strong> Tuesday, January 17, 2017 12:04 PM<br> <strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></strong> Presentation to Golden Gate Computer Society<br> </span></div>
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<div>I am a member of the Presentations Committee of the Golden Gate Computer Society ( www.ggcs.org also see our MeetUp pages))</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485020714721_7035">We are a non-profit, all volunteer User Group serving the San Francisco Bay Area (from Marin) for over 30 years, with 200 members and a large number of non member followers.</div>
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