The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1996 with the mission of building a digital library of the Internet. It is headquartered in the Richmond neighborhood in San Francisco, California. The organization works to preserve websites and other digital media for future generations, and it also offers a range of services, including the Wayback Machine, which allows users to access archived versions of websites.

The Internet Archive also operates physical locations in several cities, including the Main Reading Room in San Francisco, which is a research library that is open to the public.