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Preserving the Internet

An archive of the Internet may prove
to be a vital record for historians,
businesses and governments

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BREWSTER KAHLE founded the Internet Archive in April 1996. He invented the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) system in 1989 and started a company, WAIS, Inc., in 1992 to commercialize this Internet publishing software. The company helped to bring commercial and government agencies onto the Internet by selling publishing tools and production services. Kahle also served as a principal designer of the Connection Machine, a supercomputer produced by Thinking Machines. He received a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 276 Issue 3This article was published with the title “Preserving the Internet” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 276 No. 3 ()
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