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Way back when...

By Paul Marks

23 November 2002

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 .

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…

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