Despite being entirely funded by donations and troubled by the occasional fire , the Internet Archive is making considerable inroads into its self-appointed task to create a publicly accessible archive of everything it can get its hands on. The organisation has, in the last few years, launched in-browser vintage computing emulation playable classic arcade games , a museum of de-fanged malware , an Amiga software library , a trove of internal documents from interactive fiction pioneer Infocom , to say nothing of its archive of vintage computing magazines Its most popular feature, however, is the Wayback Machine, a service which allows users to insert a URL and view any copies the Internet Archive's robots have captured through time. A fantastic resource both for research and for securing information which would otherwise be lost to history, the Wayback Machine has previously respected the robots.txt directives file that allows webmasters to lock automated content crawlers away from chosen files and directories, but now it will do so no longer.' explained Mark Graham in a blog post announcing the change. 'While the shift will allow the Internet Archive access to a wider range of content and more control over what content remains within its archives, it does so by removing that control from webmasters - a move which has proven controversial, in particular in that ignoring the directives file altogether will also ignore sites which wish to block Internet Archive access specifically through its ia_archiver User Agent.