
Our 2019 End-of-Year fundraising drive was a big success, raising more than $6 million in individual donations and matched contributions! Just as wonderful, though, was the outpouring of encouragement we received from the thousands of you who contributed. We asked you why you choose to give and here are a few of our favorite replies:
I have been relying on your services for, I think, as long as I have been on the internet. I am 28 and first used the internet when I was 7. I love you. —Joseph J.
Thank you for preserving that stuff that people think is always going to be there, but isn’t. —Teresa R.
The powers that shouldn’t be are censoring our luminaries and truth tellers and throttling our right to free intelligent debate… you may be the last remaining vestige of open source knowledge in our near future and you MUST survive! —Zandra W.
I donated to find new homes for old things —Theo A.
I’ve been looking for early photoplay magazines for about 50 years, primarily for one set of articles on the beginning of the motion picture, part of which started in my hometown….. still need to find the specific article, but now I know I can find, and even copy it here!!! Great! Thank you so much for your wonderful efforts. Only wish I could give more!! —John P.
I appreciate what you’ve done for vintage computing. —Norman D.
It’s an important resource for all to use. I refer to the Wayback Machine often to show changing sites over time, and sometimes to reconstruct a hacked site! I like watching the videos (Prelinger Archives) on my spare time. Thx! —Kristin P.
I keep finding gold here! —Ryan N.
I have loved libraries since I was five years old and have been a librarian for 44 years. If I can help even a little in keeping the Internet Archive going, I am happy to do so. —Bruce B.
y’all doing gods work —Bryn D.
This amazing public service you provide must live on! —Michael N.
Reading is IMPORTANT! —Sharon G.
I do a lot of research on safety of refrigeration systems. The big companies manufacturing synthetic refrigerants do systematically put data to the public that is obfuscating objective risk assessments. By the Wayback Machine I was able to get important data that was already deleted from the original websites. —Thore O.
I rely on the Internet Archive to look back at the web as I experienced it when I was young, for my work, and just to satisfy general curiosity. I couldn’t imagine a world without it. —Paul H.
I LOVE READING and while I prefer books, my home no longer has book space…..So many lovers on the shelves. You are providing the opportunity for us to access many writers’ ideas which are no longer available to us at large. Thanks for honoring them. —Barbara G.
Because we all need this. —Alessandro T.
(Some comments have been edited for length and clarity.)
From the whole team here at the Internet Archive, we’re grateful from the bottom of our hearts. We couldn’t do this work without your generosity. Thank you for helping us provide universal access to all knowledge—and here’s to a great 2020!
If you’d like to join the many Internet Archive and Open Library supporters who keep us going, we invite you to chip in! Every bit helps in our mission to provide universal access to knowledge.
More people should know about this!
The accessibility of the various material is just amazing.
I use Archive resources almost daily and wish it stays available and free to all the scholars forever!
I value I can use Archive without it exploiting me for ad targeting or otherwise as payment. And it also gives me hope I can use it’s resources to preserve and share my work as an artist with future generations thru Wayback Machine.
I encourage other creators to think of Archive in regard to the possibilities it offers as a means of leaving a legacy for the future, as well as encouraging others to support it financially as I’ve recently begun to do within my capacity, and intend to do more of in future.
I am also a fan of vintage radio “airchecks” (60’s, 70’s), have found many on Archive, and hope to upload some of my own to community audio as time permits.
Scrivero in italiano… la mia lingua nativa. La storia è maestra di vita, senza storia siamo semplicemente erranti in un presente indefinito.
Grazie per il vostro lavoro e… keep up the sharing spirit! 🙂
I use your service for researching genealogy. I have discovered a number of ancient books and other relevant resources and have added them to my library. I would never be able to touch these books in libraries. Thank you so much for your service!!!!
I donated last year and was never happier with myself.
One of the measures of high-end institutions with noble goals is how to help the poor, students and those wishing to know. The noble individuals who are in charge of the archive site are a great example of the exemplary model of a gentle, uplifting, good man.
Like hundreds of millions of people, I extend the highest and most cherished meanings of thanks, appreciation and respect to all employees and officials on the archive site.
A wonderful land for letter hunters, book lovers, and readers.
A wonderful place to live in.
A wonderful pilgrimage,
Keep walking
To the world of Oz.
You are so useful for isolated people who live far from a library. Thank you for all the old books you digitalize and preserve. Browsing is so easy. The search button is a great help.
Enjoyed the accessibility to resources
Wayback Machine is a great experience
Thanks deeply from all of our hearts
Strangely enough, I don’t love you – at all – because all you really want from me is money, money (sic) money. Abba be with you
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Best regards!
Thank you again and again.
From Turkey
Elif Kareni
I’m most grateful to archives.org
I use archive resources almost every day and wish it was always available and open to all researchers!
Many thanks to Internet Archive, I get lots of Tamil Books in your site, Do your Best,
You are so useful for isolated people who live far from a library. Thank you for all the old books you digitalize and preserve. Browsing is so easy. The search button is a great help.
Yes, everyone should donate because internet archive is very useful (especially the books!).
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Internet Archive could exist for 1 billions years later when you have billions data & meta data !?
i’m wish …
I get lots of Tamil Books in your site, Do your Best
Wayback Machine is a great experience
I get lots of Tamil Books in your site
Yes, everyone should donate because internet archive is very useful (especially the books!).
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Internet archive is so useful , thank you very much for upload such useful books ..
Thank you for all the old books you digitalize and preserve.
everyone should donate because internet archive is very useful.
Thanks to arcive.org! Because I can look at old website designs and revive my old memories.
Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn’t love (antonyms of “love”).
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Like hundreds of millions of people, I extend the highest and most cherished meanings of thanks, appreciation and respect to all employees and officials on the archive site.
Thank you for Arshive all the old books you digital.
I can look at old website designs and revive my old memories