One Year Later…
A year ago I left the world of finance and hedge funds in search of something more exciting. While being inspired by Amit and the tech scene in San Francisco, the world was changing back home in New York. While in retrospect the timing was incredibly good, it was really just incredibly lucky.
I did a lot of traveling after that. In January, while reading Alan Greenspan’s autobiography on a long flight, I noticed that when he referenced research from the web he only provided basic information, providing no direct link to the data to which he was referring. So here’s this book, I thought, that’s so critical to our understanding of financial theory and history, and I’m prevented from reading the author’s source material. The problem, it seemed, is that the web is deeply ephemeral. Information readily available one minute is just as easily gone the next.
By March, after some research into this “ephemeral web”, I was hooked. For a few months I worked alone, writing the beginning of a system that could archive web content, giving it permanence. When it became clear how much I didn’t know, I started tapping New York’s tech community: Jelly, New Work City and Python stepped up. I then tried the patience of Stephen, Owen, family, friends and anyone else who might have an interest in helping out. Together, we found some awesome minds in Adam, Carl, Chris, Collin, Erin, Jeremy, Liz, Louise, Mark and Saha.
Today, as a finalist in the TechCrunch50, we launched Perpetually.com. It’s the first public release of The Perpetual Web: A private, permanent and easy archive of any web content that you choose to preserve. I’m super excited about what the team has started. We’re just at the beginning of this thing, and I already can’t wait to show you what we’ve got planned in the coming months and years. A new adventure begins!
I’m proud of, and impressed by, this guy.
Via: Darrell Silver!
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