The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded (in 1996 in San Francisco) to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. It includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th century, the Great Books are all the introduction you’ll ever need to the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization.
The Low Tech Library consists of books about the necessary skills for getting by if the extremely complex - and potentially fragile - global high-tech economy comes temporarily (or permanently) unraveled.