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I still remember the promise of the CD-Rom. Billions of years.
by schpaencoder 7y ago
I still remember the promise of the CD-Rom. Billions of years.
- akerro 7y agoIt might hold data for billions of years, but no one has CDRoms at home these days because interface and use-cases were deprecated years ago.
- halfdan 7y agoThey were only off by a couple orders of magnitude.. 10 vs 1000000000 is easy to confuse.
- toper-centage 7y agoCDs used to be sturdier and last longer. Nothing close to billions of years of course.
- wongarsu 7y agoYou could probably build CD-ROMs that last millions of years if you really tried. You can buy regular CD-Rs that are estimated to last hundreeds of years. But of course most people buy whatever is cheapest, and the cheapest CD-Rs won't last you a decade.
- nathan_long 7y agoCDs that you burned chemically with a laser at home were much less durable than those physically pressed in a factory from a glass master.