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Brewster Kahle founded the Archive in May 1996 around the same time that he began the for-profit web crawling company Alexa Internet.
In late 1999, the Archive expanded its collections beyond the Web archive, beginning with the Prelinger Archives.
The first available snapshot of the Archive’s FAQ, dating to October 4, 2002, states “The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or other Internet documents of persons who do not want their materials in the collection.
Another prominent source is the Archive’s “Worldwide Web Crawls,” which are described as “Since September 10th, 2010, the Internet Archive has been running Worldwide Web Crawls of the global web, capturing web elements, pages, sites and parts of sites.
Few details are available regarding the crawls, though the March 2011 crawl (Wide 2) states it ran from March 9, 2011 to December 23, 2011, capturing 2.7 billion snapshots of 2.3 billion unique URLs from a total of 29 million unique websites.
In August 2012, the Archive announced that it has added BitTorrent to its file download options for more than 1.3 million existing files, and all newly uploaded files.
Just two of the five national newspapers of Japan have such archives, Asahi Shimbun (just 64 snapshots since 2012), Nihon Keizai Shimbun (just 22 snapshots since 2012), while the other three have no such archives: Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, and Yomiuri Shimbun.
There are crawls contributed by the Sloan Foundation and Alexa, crawls run by IA on behalf of NARA and the Internet Memory Foundation, mirrors of Common Crawl and even DNS inventories containing more than 2.5 billion records from 2013.
Of the top three newspapers, one is not present at all and The Times of India has nearly 8 times fewer snapshots than the Hindustan Times, despite having 2.5 times the circulation in 2013.
The most recent crawl appears to be Wide Crawl Number 13, created on January 9, 2015 and running through present.
Yet, just a few days later on November 14th, 2015 the FAQ had been revised to state only “Such sites may have been excluded from the Wayback Machine due to a robots.txt file on the site or at a site owner’s direct request.
In November 2016, Kahle announced that the Internet Archive was building the Internet Archive of Canada, a copy of the Archive to be based somewhere in Canada.
In 2017 the Library of Congress announced it would no longer archive every single tweet, because of Twitter’s growth as a communication tool.
Beginning in 2017, OCLC and the Internet Archive have collaborated to make the Archive's records of digitized books available in WorldCat.
Since 2018, the Internet Archive visual arts residency, which is organized by Amir Saber Esfahani and Andrew McClintock, helps connect artists with the Archive's over 48 petabytes of digitized materials.
A 2019 report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism examined the digital-archiving practices and policies of newspapers, magazines, and other news producers.
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