The Vanished Library, Luciano Canfora
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 2:26 pm
Preserving Digital Objects: Recurrent Needs and Challenges, December 1995 presentation at 2nd NPO conference on Multimedia Preservation, Brisbane, Australia.
Brewster Kahle is a founder of the Internet Archive in April 1996. Before that, he was the inventor of the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) system in 1989 and founded WAIS Inc in 1992. WAIS helped bring commercial and government agencies onto the Internet by selling Internet publishing tools and production services to companies such as Encyclopaedia Britannica, New York Times, and the Government Printing Office.
Brewster designed super computers
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From India to the World: A Scholar’s Tribute to the Internet Archive
Posted on August 29, 2025 by Chris Freeland
Every day, people around the world use the Internet Archive to learn, specific datasets research, and discover. Aadarsh Pathak, a scholar in India, called the Internet Archive “a guardian of our collective digital heritage” in a recent note. His words inspire us—and we’d love to hear yours as we celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived.
Share your story through our testimonial form.
I am writing to you as a research scholar to express my profound gratitude for your visionary creation, the Internet Archive. It is not merely a digital library; for academics like myself, it is an indispensable and unparalleled resource.
Your incredible project has preserved countless historical documents, books, and web materials that would have otherwise been lost to time. The ability to access primary sources, trace the evolution of ideas through archived web pages, and find rare texts has been absolutely critical to the depth and authenticity of my research. The Wayback Machine, in particular, has often been my last resort for retrieving crucial online information that has disappeared from the live web.
Brewster Kahle is a founder of the Internet Archive in April 1996. Before that, he was the inventor of the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) system in 1989 and founded WAIS Inc in 1992. WAIS helped bring commercial and government agencies onto the Internet by selling Internet publishing tools and production services to companies such as Encyclopaedia Britannica, New York Times, and the Government Printing Office.
Brewster designed super computers
Posted in Announcements, News, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | Tagged Wayback Machine, Wayback1T | 1 Reply
From India to the World: A Scholar’s Tribute to the Internet Archive
Posted on August 29, 2025 by Chris Freeland
Every day, people around the world use the Internet Archive to learn, specific datasets research, and discover. Aadarsh Pathak, a scholar in India, called the Internet Archive “a guardian of our collective digital heritage” in a recent note. His words inspire us—and we’d love to hear yours as we celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived.
Share your story through our testimonial form.
I am writing to you as a research scholar to express my profound gratitude for your visionary creation, the Internet Archive. It is not merely a digital library; for academics like myself, it is an indispensable and unparalleled resource.
Your incredible project has preserved countless historical documents, books, and web materials that would have otherwise been lost to time. The ability to access primary sources, trace the evolution of ideas through archived web pages, and find rare texts has been absolutely critical to the depth and authenticity of my research. The Wayback Machine, in particular, has often been my last resort for retrieving crucial online information that has disappeared from the live web.