The California-based Archive has run the Wayback Machine, devoted to preserving the internet as a historical and cultural artifact, since 1996. It has taken more than 150 billion snapshots of webpages and uploaded hundreds of thousands of movies, concert recordings, books and software programs.

The Internet Archive is back online after new of a cyberattack took out its digital library and popular Wayback Machine on October 9.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up in read-only mode following massive data breaches last week. Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, posted an update on Monday morning on X (formerly Twitter) announcing the site's return in a "provisional manner.