Subj : Highly profitable
To : Kaelon
From : Boraxman
Date : Tue Jul 19 2022 12:16 pm
Re: "Highly profitable" Bay S
By: Kaelon to Boraxman on Mon Jul 18 2022 03:16 pm
>
> Complete agree. While archive.org does a decent job - of that I agree -
> they are only really capturing a miniscule fraction of all webpages. Think
> of the vast troves of really great sites (not to mention the countless
> crap-sites!) from Geocities, Lycos, HomeStead, etc. Gone. Completely.
>
> Again, I channel a lot of the people that write about this sort of stuff and
> they beg, plead even, to just print everything out. Photos. Books. Posts.
> Whatever you care about, if you want it to survive for posterity, affix it
> to some physical format.
>
> I cannot imagine that future generations will ever care to even try and
> unscramble the worthless ancient formats, even if they can get their hands
> on it. The Digital Detritus will be swept away by failed sites and
> unarchived flotsam.
> _____
I do that with photos which we take which matter to us, we print them into a book, though that is only a fraction of what we've taken.
I consider myself quite computer literate, having worked as IT support/co-admin, and even I worry about losing data that *I* handle, let alone others. People store their digital photo's on a laptop, one theft away from total loss. Someone I knew had theirs on a harddrive which they spilled liquid or or dropped. My wife had the only copies of many photos on her hard drive, which one day, decided to just die in a puff of smoke (luckily it somehow just worked again months later). Burned DVD's last, usually, but I've been stung by manufacturing defects. How many people use M-DISK? No one really. How many people have their photos managed by iPhoto or something, and have no idea where the files actually are on their drive, or how to access this outside of iPhoto/whatever-cloud-service?
If it is hard for me, what hope do others have?
So even if the information is around and not lost, how to find it? This was an issue in Medieval Europe too, old scrolls and books just laying in a jumble which no one knew, or cared, to know what they were.
