Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive

I've recently listened to a talk by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, talking about cost-effectively storing every book, sound recording, video, software package and web page ever created. It also diverts into copyright and community wireless networking. In short it's a very inspiring talk and well worth a listen.

If you don't have time to listen you might not realise that you can view web sites as they looked some time ago using the so-called wayback machine. You might also be unaware of 20,000 live concerts that can be downloaded for free or over 2000 movies that can be downloaded for free in DVD quality!

When I was looking at the WikiPedia entry for Community Wireless Networks I followed the link for UK networks and discovered this page of existing WLAN sites. You might be interested to take a look. I was certainly surprised at how many have already started in the U.K.