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Interview with Brewster Kahle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the got-your-back-man dept.

Netmonger writes "A fascinating interview with the man behind The Wayback Machine. Some specs from the article: "It's 150-odd standard PC cases, with four drives in each.. 'Over 100 terabytes.. As plain text in book form, that'd be over 3000 miles of shelf space.." All I can say is.. Wow!"

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  1. Re:A lot of internet information is crap... by JJAnon · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The whole point of the Internet Archive project is to document the growth of the Internet - in all its glory or lack of it thereof. There has never been an opportunity like this before. To be able to study the growth and maturity of a massive social phenomenon like the internet - something that affects the way humanity communicates on an elemental scale - is the dream of every social scientist.

    Picking and choosing what goes into the archive does not solve the purpose of the archive in any way.