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Re:We're in a Golden Age for Amateur Radio by wrycoder on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @11:22PM (#18404301)
Rather like back in the day people like Jefferson would keep a daily journal. Hand-written in a paper notebook of course, and still available 250 years later, without worrying about hardware and data conversion issues.
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Re:We're in a Golden Age for Amateur Radio by navaati on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:30AM (#18405437)
Let's not be too dramatic, ascii and utf8 will be readable in 250 years, that's a certainty.

As for the hardware issue, his notebook was kept because he was an important person. Average Joe's notebook had a much greater chance to go into the landfill.

That's the same for today persons' digital files: Average Joe laptop goes to landfill but I'm sure presidents and whatever's files are archived by State or their families, same as they did for the paper notebook back then.

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