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Please read: A note from the founder of the Internet Archive. Right now, we have a 2-to-1 matching g
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Please read: A note from the founder of the Internet Archive.
Right now, we have a 2-to-1 matching grant, tripling your impact! Your $5 donation results in $15 for the Internet Archive.
[Brewster Kahle](
The Internet Archive's work is only possible because those who use us chip in. We have a year-end 2-to-1 Matching Gift Campaign that ends in a few weeks. [Will you support a library you can trust?](
[DONATE NOW](
I worry that disinformation and misinformation are becoming synonymous with the Internet. We need to stop this.
We need to bring trustworthy, verifiable information to anyone looking for it.
History that cannot be rewritten.
Facts that cannot be contorted.
Events that cannot be "disappeared."
I feel a little guilty. We sold you on an Internet that would be a library on your desktop, and that hasn't happened. Fortunately, people are looking for good information. The Wayback Machine has become more important to journalists than ever beforeâand to the journalist in all of us. Every day, millions of people like you are finding knowledge they value at the Internet Archive. Our opportunity is to do even more to weave good information into the web.
Your help is crucial.
Did you know, at the Internet Archive:
- We've fixed 11 million broken links in Wikipedia using the Wayback Machine?
- Readers are borrowing 17,500 books per day with complete reader privacy?
- You can listen to recordings of 200,000 live concerts from 7,800 bandsâall for free?
The key is to keep improvingâand to keep it free. We could charge money but then we couldnât achieve our mission: providing everyone with access to the best knowledge the world has produced.
[This is where you come in.]( It costs the Internet Archive $20 to digitize one book and make it permanently available on the Internet. It costs us $1500 to keep a terabyte of data around forever. Here's the good news: a small investment goes such a long way. Leveraging technology allows a staff of 150 to inform tens of millions of people. We run one of the top 300 websites at a fraction of the cost.
The Internet Archive is a bargain, but we need your help.
[If you find our site useful, please consider contributing $5, $10, $50 or whatever you can afford to help us build the web we deserve.]( Plus today, your donation will be matched 2-to-1, tripling your impact!
Together we can fight disinformation and put the best information in the hands of millions.
I promise you, your money will be well spent. I care because Iâm a donor, too.
Thank you for joining me.
Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian
P.S. Our goal is to bring 1 million new books online in 2020 and link them directly to Wikipedia citations. [Please give generously this week, so that your gift will be matched 2-to-1, for triple the impact.](
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