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MaryKay Magistad writes: "The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is much beloved by investigative reporters and others, looking to find out what a webpage looked like at some point in the past, even if it's since disappeared. But the Internet Archive's work is much more ambitious than that. Founder Brewster Kahle says through scanning books and recording video feeds around the world, it aims to make all human knowledge universally available on a decentralized Web, and illiberal impulses among leaders in America and elsewhere are only 'putting a fire under our butts"'to do the work, swiftly and effectively."
Via Mary Reilley Clark, Bookmarking Librarian, Yashy Tohsaku, Juergen Wagner
I listened to this story on the way home from work, and smiled all the way. A ray of hope in this era of alternative facts.