The Latest Breaking News from Brewster Kahle

TIL the Wayback Machine saves 150,000 gigabytes of webpages every day and lives in a church in San Francisco

Currently, one copy of the Internet Archive is 175 petabytes of web history and counting.

PC Gamer · Dec 1, 2025

'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'

The Internet Archive has archived one trillion webpages since its inception.

PC Gamer · Nov 4, 2025

The Internet Archive hit with a new level of cyberattack

The Internet Archive failed to rotate API keys, which meant attackers still had some level of access.

TechRadar · Oct 21, 2024

A judge sided with publishers in a lawsuit over the Internet Archive's online library

The nonprofit, which has a mission to provide "universal access to all knowledge," says it will appeal the ruling.

WEKU · Mar 26, 2023

Michael Hiltzik: Which last longer, ebooks or physical books? The answer may surprise you

The internet engineer and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle took a shot at the book publishing industry a few weeks ago by pointing out something well-known to technologists but unappreciated by the general public: that ebooks and other digital artifacts have shorter lifespans than the physical items.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 8, 2022