Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely available has led to lawsuits by publishers and the music industry.
David Samuel plays viola in the San Francisco-based Alexander Quartet. But he almost didn't make it into this country. 'I'm a Canadian citizen,' he said, 'and I therefore needed a work visa if I was coming to the United States.'That artist's visa required special documentation: 'I was tasked with finding old programs, articles, interviews, anything that could demonstrate that I had contributed significantly to the field,' he said.
Inside the archive's San Francisco headquarters, originally a Christian Science Church, you'll find the original pews, slightly creepy statues of everyone who's ever worked for the Internet Archive, and banks and banks and banks of computers – about one-twentieth of the servers that make up just one copy of the Internet Archive. 'And then there are multiple copies to keep it safe,' Kahle said. But Kahle wants to back up more than just the web; he wants to back up everything.
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