Features

Brewster Kahle, cofounder of Thinking Machines, has been trying to create an archival copy of the entire Internet since 1996.

''The idea is preserve now and sort it out later,'' he says.

Kahle's Internet Archives (www.archive.org) has been available to the public since last October. So far, he's collected 100 terabytes of data. By comparison, the Library of Congress, the world's largest, has between 20 and 50 terabytes of data.

An interesting feature is the Wayback Machine, which makes it possible to surf pages the way they were at some particular time, like Sep 11, 2001 or Election 2000.

See www.archive.org and Boston.com article