Nothing but Net  Inside the Internet. Feb. 28 1997 3:30 AM
Nothing but Net  Preserving the Internet, 1 terabyte at a time.
The Internet is a moving target. Every minute, thousands of Web
pages are updated or abandoned. Messages sent to newsgroups
replace older postings. All but a fraction of the chat-room
conversations and digital images that streak across the Net
vanish after they're displayed.   Seeking to preserve the chaos
of the Net for posterity is Brewster Kahle, a man with a
mission, a server, and a lot of magnetic tape. Kahle, who once
designed computers for Thinking Machines Corp., founded the
Internet Archive in 1996 to collect and store all the disparate
bits of the Internet. From offices in the Presidio, the former
Army base adjacent to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the
Internet Archive's powerful computer the Internet at high
speeds. Consulting intelligent algorithms about what information
to store and how often, the archive's computer copies data to
tape cassettes on a Quantum DLT4500 r