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Print ~10 copies on paper as a book with archive quality paper. If you are 25 today (2024) you might have adult children in 25 years time; adult grandchildren
by tony-allan 2y ago
Print ~10 copies on paper as a book with archive quality paper.
If you are 25 today (2024) you might have adult children in 25 years time; adult grandchildren in another 25 years and great grandchildren 10 years after that (in 2084).
The internet, URL's and websites will be very different by then. Think about the world 60 years ago (1964). This was around the time that 7400 series TTL integrated circuits were released.
How much of your early digital history are still readable today? You might have a box full of 3.5 inch floppy discs but can you still read them.
In short, unless you have a string family history of digital archivists I would only trust paper.
- alberth 2y agoJust make sure to use acid-free paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoThe ability to read digital data in the future is a very good point. I recently wanted to retrieve my PhD (2000). It was on a disquette, I found the correct reader and had high hopes to connecting it to a contemporary PC. The thing is that I could not find the disquette anymore, despite being sure it is "there"
- tony-allan 2y agoMy practice for each new generation of device is to copy everything I am interested in to a newer technology while I still have a device that can read the old media. I have been mostly successful in capturing the files but I have a bunch that are in a format that I no longer have software to read. I lot is in folders with at least a year in their names but otherwise unprocessed. Lots of duplication. No effective way to find things I might have lost. I encrypted some stuff but lost track of the keys and the software to decrypt so that data is now lost.