Monday, 1 August 2011

Internet archivist goes pre-digital, wants to preserve a copy of every book ever published

RICHMOND, Calif. — Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of every Web page ever posted. Now the MIT ...


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