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we have 10s of thousands of 4,000 year old clay tablets. What a data set! Year 6017: we have 10s of thousands of 4,000 year old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
by tryingagainbro 9y ago
we have 10s of thousands of 4,000 year old clay tablets. What a data set!
Year 6017: we have 10s of thousands of 4,000 year old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk . Hhmmmm...
- contingencies 9y agoFloppies from the 1980s/1990s are already magnetically degraded to the point of unusable, in most cases. (Source: Recent 2017 attempt to archive remnant data from period storage media before donating hardware to a museum)
- tryingagainbro 9y agoThat was my (sarcasm) point...unless we change, they'll find NOTHING.
- contingencies 9y agoOh yeah. Excuse me for not winging your digit. Anyway, we concur.