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  • Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive

    10/14/2012 10:31:24 AM PDT · by thecodont · 2 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Updated 10:58 p.m., Saturday, October 13, 2012 | Benny Evangelista
    Brewster Kahle was a 19-year-old computer science student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when a friend posed a simple, yet life-changing question: "What can you do with your life that is worthwhile?" Kahle came up with two answers. The first, developing a microchip to ensure the privacy of telephone conversations, didn't pan out. But 32 years later, Kahle is still happily pursuing his second big idea - to create the digital-age version of the Great Library of Alexandria. His Internet Archive - fittingly based in an old Richmond District church that architecturally harks back to the ancient Egyptian library...