Internet Archive has saved a trillion web pages — the largest amount of archived material in the history of the Internet

This October, the Internet Archive is celebrating a historic milestone: one trillion preserved web pages are accessible through the Wayback Machine, the largest amount of archived material in the history of the Internet.

Since its creation in 1996, the Internet Archive has documented the digital age, from the first websites of the 1990s to today's social networks. Every day, the Wayback Machine preserves more than 498 million pages, preserving both major media resources and little-known blogs, forums, and personal pages that may have long since disappeared from the Internet. In total, the archive contains more than 150 petabytes of data, including books, audio, video, software, and documents.

To mark the anniversary, the organization will host a series of themed events throughout October, from public lectures to discussions about digital memory and the role of archiving in combating disinformation. The Internet Archive also plans to introduce new tools that will make it easier to search and access historical versions of websites.

The Wayback Machine is a key resource for researchers, journalists, and human rights activists who use the archive to fact-check and restore lost content. According to the organization, users made more than 800 billion requests to the archive last year alone.

The initiator of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kail, has repeatedly emphasized that the goal of the project is to create a "library of the entire Internet" and preserve humanity's digital heritage.