But there's no doubt that we are living through the birth of what promises to be a revolutionary communications medium. And Stan Bunger reports that some people are afraid we'll forget how it looked if we don't preserve it. It almost seems antithetical that you would worry about the past of something like the Internet, which seems to be all about the future. But the Internet is growing so fast and changing so often that there's a growing concern that unless we find a way to capture it for posterity, there will be no history of these early days. The Internet changes every second.
New stuff goes up, old stuff comes down.
Here at San Francisco's historic Presidio, a group of people is trying to save the Internet for posterity. They have taken on the task of building an Internet archive. Their leader is Brewster Kahle, a man who's already made his fortune in high-technology. There's no escaping the irony here. The Internet Archive is housed in one of San Francisco's oldest buildings and it's trying to make a record of the world's newest mass medium.