2009/3/25 Yoz Grahame <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Reed <[email protected]> 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. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
