Brewster Kahle

Brewster Lurton Kahle, born in New York City, USA, is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and Internet entrepreneur, renowned for pioneering web archiving and digital information access. He is the founder of the Internet Archive, co-founder of Alexa Internet, and a key developer of WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers), receiving 16 awards from 2004 to 2024.

Raised in Scarsdale, New York, he is the son of Margaret Mary (Lurton) and ...