Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, entrepreneur, and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine. He has advocated for universal access to human knowledge and for treating the web as a library collection that must be actively preserved.

Career highlights

Kahle co-created early Internet search and publishing systems (including WAIS) before founding the Internet Archive in 1996. Public talks and interviews often cite short average lifetimes of web pages as motivation for large-scale crawling and open access.

See also

• Internet Archive
• Digital preservation
• Web archiving

Sources

• Biographical summaries in major news profiles and the Internet Archive's own history pages.
• Rewritten short article; not a full biography dump.