Brewster Kahle studied artificial intelligence at MIT, and went on to work on one of the first massively parallel supercomputers when he helped set up supercomputer company Thinking Machines. After a detour through library school, he invented the Wide Area Information Server WAIS – one of the ancestors of the Web. You can access the Internet Archive via http://web.archive.org.
Why on earth are you doing this?
Websites are like shifting sands. The average life of a Web page is 100 days. After that either it’s changed or it disappears. So our intellectual society is built on sand. You can’t hold…
