»Ashes to ashes

Brewster Kahle wants to complete the circle of Google's Print service: once physical media are available online, make the books, movies, concerts, et al. available at cost to people everywhere.

The social and policy aspects of the internet archive are phenomenal.
Their first colo is in Alexandria, where once Ptolemy took all of your books for his library (and returned to you a faithful copy, but a copy).

salim filed this under books at 15h06 Wednesday, 22 December 2004 (link) (Yr two bits?)