The site which started in 1999 as The Wayback Machine has expanded to a gigantic archive featuring scans from library and history archives, movies from early film archives, music and audio recordings and recently has archived televisions news archive of 9/11. Internet Archive also offers a scanning service for libraries and the public around the world. It is a endless resource of history and family history texts.
The site can be accessed at http://www.archive.org/ , text resources can be accessed at http://www.archive.org/details/texts .