The Internet Archive is an amazing database of old web sites. James Chartrand pointed me to an interview with the director of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle from January 21, 2002, titled How the Wayback Machine Works. The interview is by Richard Koman and still interesting, especially for those of us interested in text spiders and archives. I was intrigued by Kahle’s claim that the IA is the largest database in the world, “It’s larger than Walmart’s, American Express’, the IRS. It’s the largest database ever built.”
See my previous post on Ghost Sites and the Internet Archive.