Op 29/10/2020 om 17:22 schreef Kenneth:
> Thomas here, and Bald Eagle as well AFAIK, have apparently taken the time to
> create a compendium of pertinent links to old posts, that they can refer to. I
> used to do the same-- until my old Win XP computer failed...and I had stupidly
> neglected to back up my years of 'net links. (I've learned my lesson, the hard
> way.) For me, it's almost like starting again from ground-zero.
> 
> 
My compendium of pertinent links is small as I did really start that 
quite recently after I lost so much time in tracing back relevant info 
(and/or history) I needed for particular projects. The net (and hence 
POV-Ray) is great for re-inventing the wheel at regular times :-) No 
criticism involved here; it is the nature of the net that stimulates 
this I am afraid, and its volatile way of "remembering" and "forgetting" 
things. The same goes for all those people who were present during those 
early days of POV-Ray and have vanished now, sometimes suddenly, 
sometimes gradually, but knowledge has gone with them, if that knowledge 
had not been secured one way or another.

I suppose prehistoric man experienced the same phenomenon: one tribe 
discovered a novel way of knapping silex tools. They boasted about it in 
the neighbourhood but were wiped out by their version of covid-19 before 
the knowledge was spread. It certainly is true of his spread from 
Africa: it happened several times but only few expansion waves were 
successful.

[and now I shut up]

-- 
Thomas

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