-successful Internet entrepreneur after he was a successful computer
- researcher.
-In the 1990s, Kahle decided he had had enough business
- success.
-It was time to become a different kind of success. So he launched
-a series of projects designed to archive human knowledge. The
- Internet
-Archive was just the first of the projects of this Andrew Carnegie
-of the Internet. By December of 2002, the archive had over 10 billion
-pages, and it was growing at about a billion pages a month.
-</para>
-<para>
-The Way Back Machine is the largest archive of human knowledge
-in human history. At the end of 2002, it held "two hundred and thirty
-terabytes of material"—and was "ten times larger than the Library of
-Congress." And this was just the first of the archives that Kahle set
-out to build. In addition to the Internet Archive, Kahle has been
- constructing
-the Television Archive. Television, it turns out, is even more
-ephemeral than the Internet. While much of twentieth-century culture
-was constructed through television, only a tiny proportion of that
- culture
-is available for anyone to see today. Three hours of news are
- recorded
-each evening by Vanderbilt University—thanks to a specific
-exemption in the copyright law. That content is indexed, and is available
-to scholars for a very low fee. "But other than that, [television] is almost
-unavailable," Kahle told me. "If you were Barbara Walters you could get
-access to [the archives], but if you are just a graduate student?" As Kahle
-put it,
+successful Internet entrepreneur after he was a successful computer
+researcher. In the 1990s, Kahle decided he had had enough business
+success. It was time to become a different kind of success. So he
+launched a series of projects designed to archive human knowledge. The
+Internet Archive was just the first of the projects of this Andrew
+Carnegie of the Internet. By December of 2002, the archive had over 10
+billion pages, and it was growing at about a billion pages a month.
+</para>
+<para>
+The Way Back Machine is the largest archive of human knowledge in
+human history. At the end of 2002, it held "two hundred and thirty
+terabytes of material"—and was "ten times larger than the
+Library of Congress." And this was just the first of the archives that
+Kahle set out to build. In addition to the Internet Archive, Kahle has
+been constructing the Television Archive. Television, it turns out, is
+even more ephemeral than the Internet. While much of twentieth-century
+culture was constructed through television, only a tiny proportion of
+that culture is available for anyone to see today. Three hours of news
+are recorded each evening by Vanderbilt University—thanks to a
+specific exemption in the copyright law. That content is indexed, and
+is available to scholars for a very low fee. "But other than that,
+[television] is almost unavailable," Kahle told me. "If you were
+Barbara Walters you could get access to [the archives], but if you are
+just a graduate student?" As Kahle put it,