Introducing On Point: The Internet Archive is in danger

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We’re coming to you with a special offering today. It’s an episode about the internet… from our friends just a few cubicles over here at WBUR: On Point.

Hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point is a unique, curiosity-driven combination of original reporting, newsmaker interviews, first-person stories, and in-depth analysis, making the world more intelligible and humane. When the world is more complicated than ever, we aim to make sense of it together.

We loved their recent episode about one of our favorite pieces of how the internet gets recorded and remembered — and we thought you might love it too.

So kick back and take a listen. We’ll bring you the usual shenanigans next week.

More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.

Guests

Brewster Kahle, founder and director of the Internet Archive. Digital librarian and computer engineer.

James Grimmelmann, professor of digital and information law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. Studies how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Support for Endless Thread comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink Software for
0:06.1	technical computing and model-based design. MathWorks, accelerating the pace of discovery in
0:12.0	engineering and science. Learn more at MathWorks.com. Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken,
0:19.4	a podcast from BU's Mayrotra Institute that explores
0:23.4	questions like, why are executives paid so much? Do they deserve it? Listen wherever you get your
0:29.7	podcasts. What's up, endless threaders? It's your buddy, Benny Brock Johnson. We're coming to you
0:36.5	with a special offering today.
0:38.8	It is an episode about the internet from our friends,
0:41.9	just a few cubicles over here at WBUR on point.
0:46.7	We listened to their recent episode about one of our favorite pieces of how the internet gets recorded and remembered.
0:53.7	And we thought you guys might love it.
0:56.2	So kick back, take a listen, and we'll bring you the usual shenanigans next week.
1:02.2	Also, if you like it, do yourself a favor and subscribe to On Point.
1:07.7	Here it is.
1:13.1	This is On Point. I'm Megynachakrabardi.
1:16.7	Republican congresswoman Elise Stefani represents New York's 21st congressional district.
1:22.7	She is one of President-elect Donald Trump's most loyal supporters.
1:27.3	And that loyalty has been rewarded.
1:30.5	Trump has picked Stefonic to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations when his new
1:35.5	administration takes office in 13 days. The certification of Trump's win went smoothly.
1:42.0	Unlike 2021, when Trump's supporters violently attacked police officers,
1:47.5	defecated in the halls of Congress, and forced the halt of the peaceful certification of a
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