demerphq wrote:
> 2009/3/25 Yoz Grahame <y...@yoz.com>:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Reed <rangerr...@befunk.com> wrote:
>>> Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and
>>> yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades.
>>> We haven't noticed only because we've changed technologies so much in
>>> the short lifespan of digital computers, that very few have run into
>>> data access issues with old media.
>>>
>>> YET.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
>>
>> 1984: BBC runs big project to compile massive 20th Century version of
>> the Domesday Book, a kind of time capsule so that future generations
>> can see how we lived, etc. Stores it on Laserdisc.
>> 2002: Whole new project set up to make that data readable again - part
>> of which requires finding any working Laserdisc equipment.
>
> Remind me of the space shuttle. Apparently they still use 8 inch
> floppies. Finding replacements is, er, apparently difficult.
That's what she said! *ba-dum ching!*
Me? I'm etching my data on sandwiched glass plates.
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