Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 03/18/2014 10:08 AM, Paul Walker wrote:
> http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/bit-rot-the-internetneverforgetsaordoesit.html
>
> Bit rot anyone? The article use the same term to refer to data corruption,
> obsolescence, and the disappearance of source materials as a result of
> intellectual property concerns and licensing. The implications are
> interesting, however: let alone your tax documents in twenty years, what
> record will be left of this whole human enterprise in 1000?

I didn't read the article, but...

1) https://archive.org/
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Not a complete answer by any means and potentially...biased and limited. 
 But interesting.

Storage always gets bigger, and it's easier to copy the old stuff than 
to sort through it.  I know I've got some ancient dot-files from my 
early-mid 90's Netaxs account stashed away someplace.  I've got batch 
files and college C and maybe Pascal programs a lot older than that. 
(Just found a BASIC program from 1989 and I know I have older.)  Easier 
to just copy it to the new storage device, it's all tiny...

Again, not complete, but what archeology is?  :-)

Food for thought I guess,
JP
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