“Universal access to all human knowledge is within our grasp. Our job is to put the best our world has to offer within the reach of our children.”
—Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Digital Librarian
Every time you search the Wayback Machine or explore a collection at the Internet Archive, you are accessing a global library built to put knowledge within reach of curious learners around the world.
The mission of “Universal Access to All Knowledge” is a commitment that goes beyond book scanners and web crawlers. It requires servers, storage, power, cooling, and the people who build and maintain our systems. Our infrastructure is the backbone of our digital library.
The Internet Archive has always been completely free for everyone, everywhere. We don’t charge for access, sell user data, or run ads. Rather than contracting out our core technology to corporations, we build and maintain our own systems.
That independence helps us preserve and provide public access to 210 petabytes of knowledge. However, it also means we are responsible for keeping that infrastructure running—and our needs are growing rapidly.
This September, you can help us meet that challenge and make your support go three times as far.
That means your $25 monthly donation unlocks an additional $50 in matching support, resulting in $75 of giving on your behalf. A $50 monthly gift becomes $150. A $100 monthly gift becomes $300.
Recurring gifts provide the dependable support we need to keep our infrastructure running year after year. In fact, the Internet Archive is powered by donations averaging about $25.
When you join the Monthly Giving Circle, you aren’t simply maintaining servers. You ensure that books are readable and websites are accessible. You are preserving the best we have to offer for generations to come.
Wayback Machine is still down because of an eternal 429 error that never ends! It happened when I was trying to access an archived website or archive a website yesterday, and it’s still going on for 24 hours! This 429 error “Too many requests” message is still going on today and never seems to go away, no matter how many times I hit “refresh”! When will the issues be fixed? Here’s an example link to an archived website that’s still down because of this error! https://web.archive.org/web/20260818164832/https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/154.0/releasenotes/
When you keep revamp the site, make it more user friendly, update it for the Millennium, keep it running for more than 24 hours without interruption, perhaps I will consider donating.
Until then, dream on.
Does this also mean fixing the Wayback Machine server? It’s been mostly down for several days now…
So when will you fix the Wayback Machine? It’s been giving me things like it “can’t be reached” or “429 Too Many Requests”. Please fix it.
Ever since I gave you money YOU’VE BEEN DOWN. I WANT MY MONEY BACK.
Donated again few bucks, not much but hope it adds up.
Keep the servers up.
Peace,
Matched by whom?
Why no ads? Ads would be nice for financial maintainability. They are not that much disgusting for us users, we’ve got used to see them all the time.
I’ve been using the Wayback Machine for years—mostly to dig up old documentation and personal blogs from the early internet. It’s easy to take this service for granted until you realize how much engineering and storage goes into preserving 210 PB of knowledge. Starting a recurring donation this September feels like the least I can do to keep that door open for the next generation. Thanks for all you do.
Are non-recurring donations also matched?