Internet Archive to Honor Carl Malamud with 2022 Hero Award

Carl Malamud is one of those good folks from early Internet culture. His recent work on getting copies of legal codes and making them freely available online is some really basic foundational work in support of American democracy. Very much in the spirit of the Internet Archive, a well deserved award.

An old book, but exciting to read about those looking to connect the entire world just it was becoming economically feasible.

Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue

https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Internet-Travelogue-Carl-Ma...

Which seems to now be available under a Creative Commons license, archive.org link: https://archive.org/details/exploringinterne00carl/

I had the pleasure of sitting across from Carl and asking him questions about how to approach issues relating to open access for a project I was working on. I still draw energy and motivation from listening to him for 10 minutes, years ago.

I'm really happy to see him getting recognition.