The Internet Archive is Inspired by the Library of Alexandria

�We bought it because it matched our logo,� Brewster Kahle told me when I met him there, and he wasn�t kidding. Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive and the inventor of the Wayback Machine. The logo of the Internet Archive is a white, pedimented Greek temple. When Kahle started the Internet Archive, in 1996, in his attic, he gave everyone working with him a book called �The Vanished Library,� about the burning of the Library of Alexandria. �The idea is to build the Library of Alexandria Two,� he told me. (The Hellenism goes further: there�s a partial backup of the Internet Archive in Alexandria, Egypt.) Kahle�s plan is to one-up the Greeks. The motto of the Internet Archive is �Universal Access to All Knowledge.� The Library of Alexandria was open only to the learned; the Internet Archive is open to everyone. In 2009, when the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, decided to sell its building, Kahle went to Funston Avenue to see it, and said, �That�s our logo!� He loves that the church�s cornerstone was laid in 1923: everything published in the United States before that date lies in the public domain. A temple built in copyright�s year zero seemed fated. Kahle hops, just slightly, in his shoes when he gets excited. He says, showing me the church, �It�s Greek!�

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The Cobweb

Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Lepore, Jill (01/26/2015), The Cobweb, The New Yorker, Retrieved on 2015-01-21

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