Internet Archive Amasses All TV News Since 2009

Storage ... Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, in the company warehouse in California.

Storage ... Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, in the company warehouse in California. Photo: The New York Times

 

Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitiser of data, which he founded and leads.

"We want to collect all the books, music and video that has ever been produced by humans," Kahle said.

"We want to collect all the books, music and video that has ever been produced by humans."

Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive

As of Tuesday, the archive's online collection will include every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs devoted to news.

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Archived ... Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

The latest ambitious effort by the archive, which has already digitized millions of books and tried to collect everything published on every web page for....... read more

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