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The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to
all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including web-
sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books.

The Archive is an incredible source of vintage freebies and much, much, more. It started life near-
ly 25 years ago and has a stated aim of archiving the internet. Currently it contains copies of over
430 billion web pages which are accessible through its Wayback Machine tool. This is just a frac-
tion of what is available on the site. For example, the archive features millions of books and texts,
audio and video recordings, images, software and games and loads more. Most of this content is
freely accessible and downloadable for free. Maybe a little dated in its design and due to the huge
amount of data available, maybe a little slow by modern standards. But you cannot have every-
thing. The software is Open Source and all the technical detail can be accessed from http://
crawler.archive.org/index.html

This article will look at some of the best content and tools – the rest you can find for yourself.

Arcade Games

https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
There are over 1700 arcade games from the 70’s through to the 90’s that can be played directly

from the web browser.

The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s
through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing
hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides re-
search, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.

The game collection ranges from early "bronze-age" videogames, with black and white screens
and simple sounds, through to large-scale games containing digitized voices, images and music.
Most games are playable in some form, although some are useful more for verification of behav-
iour or programming due to the intensity and requirements of their systems.

Do have a look and discover some of those nostalgic games that kept us enthralled back in the
days of the Atari and Amiga consoles

Audiobooks
https://archive.org/details/audiolibrary