"I supported the original creation of BitTorrent because I believe in building technology to make it easy for communities to share what they have. The Archive is helping people to understand that BitTorrent isn't just for ephemeral or dodgy items that disappear from view in a short time," said John Gilmore, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in the nonprofit's blog post. "BitTorrent is a great way to get and share large files that are permanently available from libraries like the Internet Archive."

BitTorrent is the fastest way to download items from the archive because the BitTorrent client downloads simultaneously from two different Archive servers located in two different datacenters, and from other Archive users who have downloaded these Torrents already, the site stated.

"The distributed nature of BitTorrent swarms and their ability to retrieve Torrents from local peers may be of particular value to patrons with slower access to the Archive, for example those outside the United States or inside institutions with slow connections."

The site is also offering . For example, the 1959 B movie classic "Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959" is among the 25 most popular downloads with 69 instances.

The Internet Archive has dozens of web pages dedicated to varying content. For example, the archive's shows what webpages looked like in the past, such as .