Internet Archive

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Internet Archive Wins Webby Awards, 2017
Internet Archive is a nonprofit library that gives online users access to millions of free music, books, software, movies, and websites. Webby Awards honored Archive.org with 2017’s Lifetime Achievement Award for its unwavering determination to ensuring online availability and accessibility of knowledge (Olson para. 1). The obvious issue that lingers on people’s mind is the extent to which Internet Archive offered better services and online experience than its competitors. A wide variety of internet services, free access to websites, and knowledgeable historian are the strengths of Internet Archive.
A review of the website reveals a wide range of online services. For instance, there is a collection of live music archive, community texts, American libraries, Canadian libraries, podcasts, community spirituality and religion, television archives, old-time radio, journals among other items. In all of the collections, the number of available items ranges from 1,000 to over 1,000,000 (Internet Archive 1). Besides its diversity, any person can easily access these resources from across the world. Internet Archive aims at providing free access to knowledge not only for the current population but also for the future generations. The provision of free universal knowledge could, therefore, be the primary contributor to the success of the company since internet users try to minimize the cost involved in data exchange.

Importantly, Internet Archive is the home of many historical documents. The website was honored for its efforts in preserving not only history but also information that could be easily lost during transfer (Olson para. 4). A review of the website also confirmed the availability of data from the 1660s to 2018. For instance, there are 159 1665-journal articles available in the database (Internet Archive 1). Hence, these reasons validate the winning of Internet Archive as a lifetime achiever in the 2017 Webby Awards.

Works Cited
Internet Archive. “Top Collections at the Archive.” Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine, 2018, archive.org/. Accessed 21 Sept. 2018.
Olson, Caitlin. ““And the Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement Goes To….” | Internet Archive Blogs.” Internet Archive Blogs | A Blog from the Team at Archive.org, Internet Archive, 16 May 2017, blog.archive.org/2017/05/16/and-the-webby-award-for-lifetime-achievement-goes-to/. Accessed 21 Sept. 2018.