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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
At today's conference I've found myself thinking a lot about the relation between knowledge bases, learning bases, and personal student learning management systems (there's a paper, or a product, there). This article touches on some of those themes - it is a description of how the Wayback Machine is able to archive some 100 terabytes of material written by 10 million people. What I like (among many other things): it's written in Perl. Yeah.

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