On 6/10/2011 9:39, nemesis wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>>
http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/
>
> Paper certainly endures more for far longer than digital media.

It depends how you do the digitizing. I assume you haven't read Rainbows 
End? :-)

> Easy redundancy and distribution should help digital media to survive longer.
> But it needs maintenance.  It needs people interested in the content to always
> make backup copies before the medium starts failing.

And to convert the formats, yes.   I'm amazed at some of the stuff even in 
recent history that has disappeared, like movies that cost hundreds of 
millions of dollars to make, or data from the Apollo missions.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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