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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I've not been running around on this globe for too long, but I've already seen many people lose access to their information because they where either unable to access the media, in case of old floppies
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Yep, me too (having come to the rescue of friends in this situation in the past, with my olde Mac). And those people could have prevented that, just by transferring their data over when tech first started to move on from floppies, instead of waiting ten years and then going "Oopsie!". I've seen a bunch of people lose data from not backing up their hard drive, too - again, this is very easily prevented. The solution is a modicum of education, forward planning and not falling into the trap of "it'll never happen to me" syndrome.
People have lost their paper books too, to fire, flood, or theft. (None of which will lose me my ebooks, because I have an onsite backup, an offsite backup, and cloud - despite having probably fewer than 40 years left, unlike you!) It doesn't make one format superior to the other; just different.