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Corporate libraries are another thing that doesn't quite exist anymore. The Apple's of today will possibly have no archives at all.

jedberg 4y ago
For both of my startups, I created a shared folder where anyone can dump things with the specific purpose of, "If we get super big and world famous, this would be interesting early history". Sadly we never got big or famous, but the idea was there! Most of what was in there were early pictures of the team at important events.
- jrochkind1 4y ago
  And now presumably all that stuff is totally gone? 30 years ago, the "folder" would have been an actual manilla folder, and you'd still have it sitting in a drawer at home somewhere.
  - jedberg 4y ago
    Nah, I kept it all, moved it to a personal Dropbox folder.
- neilv 4y ago
  I did this at a recent startup where I was first engineering hire. It was our "Nostalgia" Google Drive. To keep it quick and low-maintenance, every entry (photo, video, copy&paste of a Slack discussion, etc.) was just its own file, with a filename starting with the date in "yyyy-mm-dd" format, followed by a caption. No other curation or presentation. Even a few months after an event, there was already some significant nostalgia value (and look how far you came already), and it also was a partial chronology.
- fmajid 4y ago
  This stuff needs to be curated. There's The Autodesk Files, collected by the founder himself: https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/
JKCalhoun 4y ago
My wife is a corporate librarian for one of the older tech companies. You are correct.
- Eumenes 4y ago
  how do you get that job?
  - jrochkind1 4y ago
    Get an ML(I)S degree, do a relevant internship, then apply... 20 years ago.
    - JKCalhoun 4y ago
      Yeah, basically. (But she never had the internship — and it was 25 years ago, ha ha.)
- kridsdale2 4y ago
  So is mine. Which company?
  - JKCalhoun 4y ago
    Agilent (was HP).
pinewurst 4y ago
Do a little research on the HP historical archives. Shudder...
- wl 4y ago
  Yeah, I was surprised to read nothing in her article about the HP archives about how much of the earliest stuff was burned in the Tubbs fire. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/hewlett-packard-historical-archives-destroyed-in-santa-rosa-fires/ https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/hewlett-packa...

jedberg 4y ago

For both of my startups, I created a shared folder where anyone can dump things with the specific purpose of, "If we get super big and world famous, this would be interesting early history". Sadly we never got big or famous, but the idea was there! Most of what was in there were early pictures of the team at important events.

jrochkind1 4y ago
And now presumably all that stuff is totally gone? 30 years ago, the "folder" would have been an actual manilla folder, and you'd still have it sitting in a drawer at home somewhere.
- jedberg 4y ago
  Nah, I kept it all, moved it to a personal Dropbox folder.
neilv 4y ago
I did this at a recent startup where I was first engineering hire. It was our "Nostalgia" Google Drive. To keep it quick and low-maintenance, every entry (photo, video, copy&paste of a Slack discussion, etc.) was just its own file, with a filename starting with the date in "yyyy-mm-dd" format, followed by a caption. No other curation or presentation. Even a few months after an event, there was already some significant nostalgia value (and look how far you came already), and it also was a partial chronology.
fmajid 4y ago
This stuff needs to be curated. There's The Autodesk Files, collected by the founder himself: https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/

JKCalhoun 4y ago

My wife is a corporate librarian for one of the older tech companies. You are correct.

Eumenes 4y ago
how do you get that job?
- jrochkind1 4y ago
  Get an ML(I)S degree, do a relevant internship, then apply... 20 years ago.
  - JKCalhoun 4y ago
    Yeah, basically. (But she never had the internship — and it was 25 years ago, ha ha.)
kridsdale2 4y ago
So is mine. Which company?
- JKCalhoun 4y ago
  Agilent (was HP).

pinewurst 4y ago

Do a little research on the HP historical archives. Shudder...

wl 4y ago
Yeah, I was surprised to read nothing in her article about the HP archives about how much of the earliest stuff was burned in the Tubbs fire. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/hewlett-packard-historical-archives-destroyed-in-santa-rosa-fires/ https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/hewlett-packa...