Which nonprofit digital library was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996?

The Internet Archive is the nonprofit digital library founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996. Kahle created it with the goal of providing broad, long-term access to knowledge in digital form.

The organization began archiving web pages during the early growth of the World Wide Web. Its collection later expanded far beyond websites to include books, films, audio recordings, software, images, and other digitized materials. This makes it a digital library and preservation organization, not merely a website backup service.

A common mix-up is Open Library, which is an Internet Archive project focused on building a web page for every published book and making many books available for controlled digital lending. The Internet Archive is the parent nonprofit organization; Open Library is one of its major initiatives.

Brewster Kahle had previously worked on WAIS, an early distributed information-retrieval system, and later co-founded Alexa Internet. The Internet Archive’s web-preservation work eventually led to the public launch of the Wayback Machine in 2001.