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> Somebody thought it was a one-time uplift and was done. That was the mindset back in the 00's - just put everything on a cd or hdd and it'll be there forever
by lazystar 3y ago
> Somebody thought it was a one-time uplift and was done.
That was the mindset back in the 00's - just put everything on a cd or hdd and it'll be there forever, then you can get rid of the bulky source material. Hindsight, of course, is 20/20. lost backups, ransomware, incompatible media files....
- techdragon 3y ago… Low resolution scans using older image processing technology… black and white only scans of photocopies… shakes fist at several publicly accessible US government department archives
- 7speter 3y agoThis reminds me of the old articles I ran into at some point from the 80s and maybe early 90s where the writers talked about how many floors from a library you could fit on a hard drive or a floppy disk or a maybe a cd. Of course, that’s just text…