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Write a note on your iPad. Remove that silly pin number, turn it off. Put it in a bag. Put it in the attic. Live your life and forget all about it. 130 years l
by foxfired 9y ago
Write a note on your iPad. Remove that silly pin number, turn it off. Put it in a bag. Put it in the attic. Live your life and forget all about it.
130 years later, the now obsolete technology is found. Boy they are gonna have a hard time reading that note you left.
This is when we get to appreciate a medium such as text. Our information is becoming more and more complicated to the point that it might become impossible to decipher, or near impossible.
Edit: missing word
- staplers 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age
- kevin_thibedeau 9y ago> 130 years later, the now obsolete technology is found. ... And the NAND flash has long since drained it's charge.
- mkj 9y agoLTO or 3592 tapes might survive?
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoYou see it happening already, people are finding e.g. old tape drives from MOS Technology (http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5256 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5256) which could contain valuable information about the design of some older processors and such, but they're unreadable and/or rotted. Same for older films, which are finally getting painstakingly restored and digitized. TL;DR if you're making something, and it turns into something great, make sure your older stuff, the stuff you did to work towards it, is archived somehow.
- efreak 9y agoWould vinyl records make a better long-term storage medium than CDs or magnetic tapes?
- smileysteve 9y agoGiven the same environments; not really. Given heat and/or UV, vinyl is going to warp before thermoplastic (or foil glue -- except the cheapest cds). Given humidity tape is going to go bad quickly, but so will vinyl.