The L3S Research Center and the Alexandria project congratulate the Internet Archive for winning the Webby Lifetime Achievements Award 2017 on the evening of May 15, 2017 in New York. The Webby Awards – hailed by the New York Times as “one of the Internet’s highest honors” – lauded the Internet Archive for being “the web’s most knowledgeable historian.”
Three of IA veteran staff members, Tracey Jaquith, TV Archive Architect, Internet Archive founder and Digital Librarian, Brewster Kahle, and Alexis Rossi, Director of Media and Access, accepted the award. Kahle delivered the five-word acceptance speech with panache: “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”
“The Internet Archive…is building a home for Universal Access to All Knowledge, open to everyone, everywhere, to use as they like. Open to all societies of the future that care to build on our triumphs and learn from our mistakes.”
– Lawrence Lessig
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