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You'd think the UK of all places would learn what with that Domesday Book kerfuffle.
by bitwize 3y ago
You'd think the UK of all places would learn what with that Domesday Book kerfuffle.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoAre you referring to the original Domesday Book, or the issue with difficulty reading the Domesday Book laserdiscs, produced in the 1980s, as the hardware became obsolete? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
- bitwize 3y agoThe digital one. The paper Domesday Book has lasted nearly a thousand years; the digital version could scarcely make it to twenty. I don't think we've seen a more stark illustration of the difficulties of digital archiving.