Who is Brewster Kahle?:
Brewster Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive, a digital, permanent repository of online knowledge that aims to preserve what is placed on the Web for historical purposes.
Professional history:
Kahle designed WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), a distributed information process for the Web. He also co-founded Alexa, a service that tracks Internet traffic.
What is the Internet Archive?:
The Internet Archive was founded in 1996. It is a non-profit whose purpose is to make a permanent record of Web content: documents, Web pages, music, images, and multimedia.
Free, unlimited access to the data in the Internet Archive is available to anyone, anywhere. Collections include Moving Images, Live Music Archive, Audio, and Texts.
The Wayback Machine:
The Wayback Machine is the largest collection in the Internet Archive, with over 150 billion pages backed up and saved at the time of this writing. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to see what a Web site looked like in the past, simply by typing in the URL and choosing an archived date.
Special projects:
Special projects at the Internet Archive include the Open Library, which aims to put up a Web page for every book ever published, and the Open Content Alliance, a cooperative effort between several government and non-profit organizations to archive digital content.
Recognition and awards:
Brewster Kahle has received many awards for his pioneering work, including being included in the 2009 "50 Visionaries Changing Your World" and the 2010 Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award.
Current projects:
Kahle continues to lead the effort to preserve the world's information at the Internet Archive. He also serves on the board of such organizations as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the European Archive.
Brewster Kahle:
Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the world's largest repository of digital information on the Web.
