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Kim Komando Today

Travel back in time online with Wayback and Internet Archive founder

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Meet Brewster Kahle, founder of the Wayback Machine and Archive.org, a free online digital library that's been archiving web pages since the mid-1990s. After earning a fortune selling technologies to AOL and Amazon, Kahle set out on a mission to create an archive of web content so anyone can access it free and without barriers.

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0:00.0

I've been designing supercomputers my whole career.

0:02.3

We're completely prepared for this.

0:04.0

We actually serve petabytes of data.

0:07.2

That was Brewster Kiel.

0:08.9

Oh my gosh, I had such a great time putting together this podcast.

0:12.6

And he was talking about the massive amounts of data on the Internet Archive at a special website,

0:17.4

Archive.org, and also something called the Wayback Machine.

0:20.5

Now, if you've never heard

0:22.6

about archive.org and you've never heard about the wayback machine, oh my gosh, on this episode

0:28.2

of Command on Demand, you're going to love it. You're going to hear about Brewster's vision to

0:31.9

create the world's largest public library, the library of the internet. And this is the crazy part. You're going to learn how

0:38.8

your family's videos, books, and documents can actually become part of this vast library.

0:45.2

Because from commando.com, this is Commando on demand, where we talk to industry, movers,

0:49.3

and shakers. We keep you up to date on everything digital. You can actually get new episodes

0:53.3

every Wednesday and every Friday. so be sure that you subscribe.

0:56.7

And for more podcasts like this, just search Commando wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.0

And that's with a K, of course.

1:02.7

We're going to get started in a moment, but first, I'd like to thank our partners who help make these Commando-on-demand podcasts possible.

1:24.0

Thank you. Commando on-demand podcast possible. Universal access to all knowledge is within our grasp.

1:29.3

We could actually achieve the great vision of everything ever published, everything that was ever meant for distribution, available to anybody in the world that's ever wanted to have access to it.

1:42.5

Okay, welcome back.

1:43.7

Now, if you ask Brewster Kale who he is, he'll tell you,

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