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Internet Archive
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| Name: | Internet Archive |
| Date(s): | 1996- |
| Profit/Nonprofit: | nonprofit |
| Country based in: | USA |
| Focus: | digital library |
| External Links: | https://archive.org/ |
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The Internet Archive is a digital library "of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."[1] Their main claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, an archive of the web dating back to 1996, but many other digital collections have been added to the site, some uploaded by regular users. See the Wikipedia page for more.
Fans have long used the Wayback Machine to find fanfiction and fansites that have disappeared. Because the site allows users to upload materials, some fans have used the Internet Archive as a fanworks archive.
2024 outages
In October 2024 the Internet Archive was taken down following a cyberattack.[1] Archive.org became available again for read-only used on 21 October,[2] and by the end of October most services were back online.[3] As the Internet Archive is a popular host for fanworks which cannot directly be hosted on AO3, such as podfic, fans became increasingly concerned with finding alternate hosts.
- Tumblr polls on podfic hosting options: [2], [3]
- Fanartists and podficcers posting about where else they would be hosting: [4], [5], [6]
Fanwork Collections
- Vidding Fanvid Collection
- Fanfiction Fanzine Collection
- Fan Fiction Archive (Fanfiction.net crawls)
- Science Fiction Conventions Zines
Fanwork Tags
- podfic tag mostly in the general "Community Audio" collection
- fanvid tag
- ^ "The Internet Archive is still down by will return in 'days, not weeks'", The Verge, 11 October 2024
- ^ "Internet Archive services update", blog.archive.org, 21 October 2024
- ^ "The Internet Archive is finally mostly back online after a series of cyberattacks", ZDNet, 29 October 2024