Brewster Kahle
American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive · United States · Founders · Born 1960 · age 65
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Something wrong?Brewster Lurton Kahle is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering. Kahle founded the Internet Archive and co-founded Alexa Internet in 1996.
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, The United States, as you point out, has been actually freer than most in terms of offering access to information. It doesn't have to be this way.
Here's the problem with the web - this is so cool, it's worth it. The internet is decentralized in the sense that you can kind of nuke any part of it and it still works.
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Brewster Lurton Kahle is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering. Kahle founded the Internet Archive and co-founded Alexa Internet in 1996. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.
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