Monthly Archives: September 2026

By Brewster Kahle and Claude Eugene Power inspecting microfilm. From the Internet Archive’s collections. Europe circulated its theses by printing each one by the hundred. America’s answer was the opposite: one typescript, one camera, and a company in Ann Arbor … Continue reading →

For a century, the universities of Europe ran a remarkable system for copying and circulating every dissertation they produced. Then the web arrived, and we quietly stopped. Here is that story — and pointing to how the Internet Archive Europe … Continue reading →