The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996 to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to the world's knowledge in digital format. Collections include texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. The web collection now totals over 35 petabytes of primary data compressed and includes 288+billion captures harvested from 1996 to the present.