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> More likely, the digital file would come to be erased or rendered unreadable by changes in technical standards. No one likes to admit it, but the solution is
by npsimons 11y ago
> More likely, the digital file would come to be erased or rendered unreadable by changes in technical standards.
No one likes to admit it, but the solution is simple:
1) Plain ASCII text and
2) Distributed version control.
- justinlardinois 11y agoNeither of which is very attractive to most people. The author alluded to it, but domain-specific version control is more likely to capture history, especially since most people don't know it exists. Recent versions of Word, for example, record old versions, so we've got that, if we can still read Word documents.