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Something 500 years old is by definition worth keeping, alone for historians.
by siva7 5y ago
Something 500 years old is by definition worth keeping, alone for historians.
- tomc1985 5y agoWho are regularly awash in the random detritus and scraps of paper left behind by our priors While I agree they are interested in everything, I think they are more interested in sampling insignificant works, as opposed to archiving all of them
- mikewarot 5y agoI'm emptying out a storage bin with 25+ year old stuff that begs to differ. Storing things has a cost, actually storing things so they last, far more so. Even historians curate and don't keep everything.
- siva7 5y agoBut they won’t need to delete anything. Imagine the storage and data science in 500 years. Probably the whole internet of 2021 will fit into a 2521 usb stick
- mikewarot 5y agoMy 600 GB of Photos begs to differ (I've worn out camera shutters!), you can't find anything without a long search. If you can't find it, you don't own it... so yes, in theory it's there, but nobody will access it, ever... so does it really exist any more? It's back to the same meta that everyone else says... you have to make something that people want to have around in 500 years as a first step, or you're just pushing against very poor odds.
- 1970-01-01 5y agoAccessibility is one of the fundamental pillars of security. If you don't have access to your data, it no longer belongs to you.
- kzrdude 5y agoYou're just 500 years too early with the emptying.