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People should learn a thing: data are not tied to the physical media hosting them, like words on paper, and the sole way to preserve data is migrating them from
by kkfx 2y ago
People should learn a thing: data are not tied to the physical media hosting them, like words on paper, and the sole way to preserve data is migrating them from a physical support to another regularly, also converting their formats sometimes, because things changes and an old format could end up unreadable in the future.
We can't preserve bits like books.
- Thrymr 2y ago> We can't preserve bits like books. The only reason we have any copies of "books" (i.e. long written works) from the ancient world is that they were painstakingly copied over centuries from one medium to another, by hand for most of that time.
- kkfx 2y agoDefinitively right, above I intend we can't preserve bits simply collecting them in libraries of physical supports like we do with shelves full of books or folders of archived sheets. With bits there is no "original" and "copy", any copy is still "original", we do not loose information or introduce changes because of that.