Re:Online Shopping in the 1950s
by steven777400 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @03:33PM
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Even having the drives may not mitigate issues of that kind. A variety of articles [0] describe unexpectedly (well, to consumers at least) short lifespans on CD-Rs. Lots of CD drives are still around, but you might be unpleasently surprised if you put in a 15 year old CD-R that's been sitting on the shelf.
[0] Google search: burned cd lifespan
> Have any old Zip disks laying around (or did you ever)?
Nope. Too young for Zip disks. My data's on redundant hard drives in my NAS and has a cloud backup as the braces to that NAS's belt.
> Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now.
I have a remarkable amount of trust and faith in the Internet Archive to continue being excellent at their jobs or others to pick up the slack. This thread reminded me about a project I wanted to bounce off of those folks, too...BRB.
Re:Online Shopping in the 1950s
by greglindahl on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:00PM
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The way to save bits is to copy them onto new media every few years. That's what the Internet Archive does -- we're currently phasing out 2 terabyte disks for 8's.
Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now.