# Brewster Kahle

id: ent_brewster-kahle  
wikidata: Q92945  
kind: person  
timeline: /timelines/brewster-kahle.md  
page: /record/brewster-kahle  
same_as: https://asof.is/record/brewster-kahle (how to cite the id: /identifiers.md)  

Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive. On the record, Brewster Kahle is Chair of Internet Archive, since 1996; and a founder of Internet Archive.

## Key facts

- Chair: Internet Archive (since 1996) · claim: /claim/clm_0A912E4AA70B.md
- Founder: Internet Archive · claim: /claim/clm_C9811966AFF6.md

## Questions

**What roles does Brewster Kahle hold?** Chair of Internet Archive since 1996 and Founder of Internet Archive, as the AsOf record states with its sources.

**What is Brewster Kahle's role at Internet Archive?** Chair since 1996 and Founder.

## Fact pages

One page per fact: the current value with its sources, then every dated value and what replaced what. Fetch any of them as markdown.

- [Brewster Kahle chair roles](/record/brewster-kahle/chair_of.md)
- [Brewster Kahle founder roles](/record/brewster-kahle/founder_of.md)

## Current state

What the record asserts: claims that held, valid by their sources or primary-sourced at confidence 0.7 or more. Unverified, disputed, retracted and review-marked claims are listed below, labelled, not here.

- [Brewster Kahle](/record/brewster-kahle.md) | chair_of | [Internet Archive](/record/internet-archive.md) | valid 1996-01-01 to present | conf 0.85 | valid | [clm_6267651C870E](/claim/clm_6267651C870E.md)
  sources: https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/kahle_declaration.pdf, https://www.billboard.com/pro/internet-archive-streaming-classic-music-without-license/, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461, https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/kahle.html
- [Brewster Kahle](/record/brewster-kahle.md) | founder_of | [Internet Archive](/record/internet-archive.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_BAD4B12340FC](/claim/clm_BAD4B12340FC.md)
  sources: https://archive.org/about/bios.php, https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/20/press-conference-statement-brewster-kahle-internet-archive/, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461

## All claims

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- [Brewster Kahle](/record/brewster-kahle.md) | founder_of | [Internet Archive](/record/internet-archive.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_BAD4B12340FC](/claim/clm_BAD4B12340FC.md)
  sources: https://archive.org/about/bios.php, https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/20/press-conference-statement-brewster-kahle-internet-archive/, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461
- [Brewster Kahle](/record/brewster-kahle.md) | chair_of | [Internet Archive](/record/internet-archive.md) | valid 1996-01-01 to present | conf 0.85 | valid | [clm_6267651C870E](/claim/clm_6267651C870E.md)
  sources: https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/kahle_declaration.pdf, https://www.billboard.com/pro/internet-archive-streaming-classic-music-without-license/, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461, https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/kahle.html

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