Author Archives: Brewster Kahle

US Election Results

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

I am a bit shell shocked– I did not think the election would go the way it did.   I want to reassure everyone– we are safe– funding, mission, partners have no reason to change.   I find this reassuring, hopefully you … Continue reading →

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Election Night at the Internet Archive

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive is informally open to our employees, their families and friends, and our community to watch the election results next Tuesday night. This is a spur-of-the-moment invitation and an experiment. If there are enough people interested, we will … Continue reading →

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Decentralized Web Server: Possible Approach with Cost and Performance Estimates

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

At the first Decentralized Web Summit Tim Berners-Lee asked if a content-addressable peer-to-peer server system scales to the demands of the World Wide Web. This is meant to be a partial answer to a piece of the puzzle.  For background, … Continue reading →

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Geez, Now Internet Insurance?

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

We seem to make some people mad. The Internet Archive, a non-profit library, hosts many things. Many, many things. Billions of old webpages, lots of concerts, nostalgia computer games, TV, books, old movies, contributed books, music, and video, and much … Continue reading →

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Decentralized Web Summit: Towards Reliable, Private, and Fun

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

[See coverage by the NYtimes, Fortune, Boing Boing, other press] More than 300 web architects, activists, archivists and policy makers gathered at the Internet Archive for the  first Decentralized Web Summit, where I was honored to share a stage with internet pioneers, Vint Cerf, and … Continue reading →

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Discover Books Donates Large Numbers of Books

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

Internet Archive is proud to partner with Discover Books, a major used book seller, to help let the stories in books live on.   Discover books is donating books that the Internet Archive does not yet own and would have gone … Continue reading →

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Upcoming changes in epub generation

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

Epub is a format for ebooks that is used on book reader devices.   It is often mostly text, but can incorporate images. The Internet Archive offers these in two cases:  when a user uploads them, and when they are created … Continue reading →

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Getting back to “View Source” on the Web: the Movable Web / Decentralized Web

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

The Web 1.0 moved so fast partly because you could “View Source” on a webpage you liked and then modify and re-use it to make your own webpages. This even worked with pages with JavaScript programs—you could see how it … Continue reading →

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Save our Safe Harbor: Submission to Copyright Office on the DMCA Safe Harbor for User Contributions

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

The United States Copyright Office is seeking feedback on how the “notice and takedown” system created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, also known as the “DMCA Safe Harbors,” is working. Congress decided that in this country, users of the … Continue reading →

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Next Librarian of Congress: Carla Hayden

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Brewster Kahle

The President has nominated Carla Hayden to be the next Librarian of Congress.    I have met her through IMLS and support her for this position. As a public librarian, she can bring an access and public service orientation to a … Continue reading →

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