“s his commitment to the survival of books that drives this project.”
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Brewster Kahle
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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business · American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive · digital librarian · entrepreneur · computer scientist · archivist · librarian · author · also Brewster Kahle, Brewster Lurton Kahle, Brewster L. Kahle, Kahle
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2026· 24 entries
“Knowledge lives in lots of different forms over time,”
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“The dedicated idea is to have the physical safety for these physical materials for the long haul, and then have the digital versions accessible to the world,”
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“ve acquired the first half-million donated texts makes him optimistic about reaching what he sees as a realistic goal of 10 million books – the equivalent of a major university library.”
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“Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time. archive.org/details/prof... (1912) thats it. just that.”
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“Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time. https:// archive.org/details/profession alwres00smitrich/page/n5/mode/2up thats it. just that.”
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“3/3 But true camelCase, the pattern you originally asked about, does not appear to be an actual historical convention in American (or Canadian) library literature at all. It's essentially a myth as far as our holdings can show — likely a modern misreading or conflation with genuine tech-branding camelCase (like "PowerPoint" or "YouTube"), rather than something librarians themselves ever did.”
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“2/3 Final, well-supported conclusion: our holdings confirm a stable, real four-way coexistence (title case, lowercase, all-caps-in-headers, and hyphenated variants of the first two) that persisted for decades side by side — often within the very same document.”
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“claude set me strait using the Internet Archive's holdings: True camelCase — "InterLibrary Loan" (internal capital L): still zero. Across several hundred read snippets spanning ~70 years of library literature, genres, and geographies, not one single genuine instance of the internal-capital camelCase form turned up. 1/2”
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“...Other familiar words followed the same arc — lifestyle, boilerplate, doorbell, screwdriver, tailwind, rowboat, and postcard all had eras when they were encountered more commonly as open or hyphenated compounds.”
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“2/2 The crossover: 1925. In the Ngram data, "interlibrary loan" (closed) first overtakes "inter-library loan" (hyphenated) in frequency around 1925, and from that point forward it never looks back — closed spelling stays dominant continuously through the rest of the 20th century. (summary by claude)”
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“"inter-library loan" vs. "interlibrary loan" Google Books Ngram Viewer data comparing across the full corpus (1870–2019), and it gives a real number: around 1925. Here's what the data shows: 1870s–1910s: The hyphenated form dominates entirely — this matches Green's 1876 "Inter-Library Loan of Books" and the early ALA-era usage we found in Library Journal. ~1900s–1920: Both forms are climbing in frequency (unsurprising, as ILL practice was growing), with hyphenated still clearly ahead. 1/2”
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“InterLibrary Loan history -- (you can stop reading now :) -- there was some early centuries AD, but... First practical was UCBerkeley <-> California State Library in 1894. but first call for it (in US) was 1876: https:// archive.org/details/libraryjou rnalch1187dewe/page/n32/mode/1up?q=%22LENDING+OF+BOOKS%22 love live ILL”
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“Big Batteries help with the electrification of everything. 800GW of solar was installed last year, and batteries help smooth the curves [previous post]. 1.8TWh of batteries were made last year (!) "global battery demand will grow from 1.8 terawatt hours last year to 5.7 TWh by 2030 and 16.6 TWh by 2050" from Researchers at Bernstein in Hong Kong https://www. ft.com/content/13351971-76dd-4 284-a81e-3ffd8ec4e351?syn-25a6b1a6=1 lets double a few more times and be done with this transition.”
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“Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude. A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. Canadians paid for building it ($6.4B) and endured getting jerked around right before opening. Thank you, Canada! Gordie Howe Bridge! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...”
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“DWeb camp in on near Berlin. Let’s build a web with many winners. Let’s lock the web open. Dwebcamp.org”
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2026).
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“The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring it much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital. archive.org/details/noaa blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/t...”
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“Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-good pick to endorse for your seat. Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and recieved Internet Archive Hero award in 2023! 1/3”
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“The Daily Weather Report, 1938 International and Upper Air Sections by Air Ministry Meteorological Office, London W.C.2. Check out the first pages at link below. Someone (& all AI's) need to know! I love my job. pls post photos of why your job is awesome. archive.org/details/dail...”
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“🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️”
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“Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.”
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“Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...”
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“Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at archive.org/details/Publ... and YouTube at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ht @holovaty.com @brewster.kahle.org”
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2025· 1 entry
American Libraries: Newsmaker: Brewster Kahle
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2024· 1 entry
Kahle shipped 350,000 (mainly European) dissertations from the stacks of Leiden University Library to storage of the Internet Archive in Pennsylvania
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2023· 1 entry
c-span: Brewster Kahle
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2016· 1 entry
TechCrunch: INNOVATE2016: Brewster Kahle’s call for a decentralized web
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2014· 1 entry
The Next Web: How Brewster Kahle is using open-source principles to build affordable housing for non-profit workers
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2013· 1 entry
Published “ggmap: Spatial Visualization with ggplot2” in The R Journal — cited 1,776 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2012).
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Kahle and banking veteran Jordan Modell established Internet Archive Federal Credit Union to serve people in New Brunswick, New Jersey and Highland Park, New Jersey, as well as participants in programs that alleviate pov
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2011· 1 entry
Democracy Now: Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age
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2010· 2 entries
Published “PINK1/Parkin-mediated mitophagy is dependent on VDAC1 and p62/SQSTM1” in Nature Cell Biology — cited 2,571 times.
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Kahle received an honorary doctorate from Simmons University
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Why Do U.S. Firms Hold So Much More Cash than They Used To?” in The Journal of Finance — cited 2,279 times.
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2008· 1 entry
ZDNet: Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Paul Evan Peters Award (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Implemented the Wayback Machine, which allows public access to the World Wide Web archive that the Internet Archive has been gathering since 1996
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus” in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth — cited 1,818 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Kahle explained that apart from the value for historians' use of these digital archives, they might also help resolve some common infrastructure complaints about the Internet, such as adding reliability to "404 Document
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1995· 1 entry
For $15 million), and, in 1996, Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon
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1992· 1 entry
Co-founded, with Bruce Gilliat, WAIS, Inc
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1984· 1 entry
Published “Learning How to Learn” — cited 2,441 times.
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1982· 2 entries
Receiving a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in computer science and engineering, where he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity
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With a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-10-22.
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