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Cries in flooded, moist or burnt down physical archives.

• happytiger 3y ago
  Government could ruin civilization with unexpected moisture. That’s a strange sounding verbiage.
  • notpachet 3y ago
    > ruin civilization with unexpected moisture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth
    • happytiger 3y ago
      Civilization has ended once through fire, once through flood, and finally through unexpected moisture. It just sounds so Douglas Adams.
• tempestn 3y ago
  I don't think anyone's arguing they shouldn't be digitized, just that the originals shouldn't be destroyed.
  • LunaSea 3y ago
    Sure, but if the original are not safer than the digital versions and also less practical, than maybe that's an argument for digital-only. With more redundancies, multi-location replication and all that jazz of course.