An Archive of a Different Type

Re:An Archive of a Different Type by userbinator on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:49PM (#24300923)

Some of these books are very old; an 1892 treatise on the ins and outs of bookkeeping was particularly beautiful.

One of the things I really like about books is the ease with which you can immediately start reading one, despite it possibly being over a century old; some things just have not changed much over time. It's a very refreshing feeling for someone working in an industry obsessed with change and breaking things every few months.

...and "prototype design drawings for the first HP laser printer" --- definitely looking forward to seeing that one!

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Re:An Archive of a Different Type by JohnBooty on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:31AM (#24301653)

     It's a very refreshing feeling for someone working 
     in an industry obsessed with change and breaking 
     things every few months.

I agree. The last few hobbies I've acquired are pretty mature and they appeal to me for exactly that reason.

There are still exciting innovations occurring in each of these hobbies, but for the most part, they were perfected to a large extent in previous decades.

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Re:An Archive of a Different Type by harlanji on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:35PM (#24301118)

I keep Tweeting about a 100 year hosting plan, and copying companies and libraries who ignore it. I do static generation a lot and it’d be nice to be able to leave something online for a while after I die.

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