As someone who was an adult and working with computers in 1999 the first thing that comes to mind is that storage was way more expensive back then. I remember p

As someone who was an adult and working with computers in 1999 the first thing that comes to mind is that storage was way more expensive back then. I remember paying a ton of money around then for an Iomega ZIP drive that held 160MB on disks that cost $99 each if I recall correctly. The idea that massive amounts of inconsequential log data with little business purpose from that era is just lying around is not very plausible.