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Kindly ignoring the snide fact that, yes, git wasn't available in 1993, I'll point out that ASCII has been around since, what, the late 1960's? Of course, I wil
by npsimons 14y ago
Kindly ignoring the snide fact that, yes, git wasn't available in 1993, I'll point out that ASCII has been around since, what, the late 1960's? Of course, I will admit I was being a bit snarky too, but backups have been around forever, and text compresses really well. Of course, I can appreciate the permanence of ink, or even stone as a media (http://books.google.com/books?id=CgeHW-geducC&lpg=PA6&ots=W-wVe4fKqT&dq=chalk%20ink%20stone%20Anathem&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=chalk%20ink%20stone%20Anathem&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=CgeHW-geducC&lpg=PA6...).