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Originally Posted by acidzebra
Yes, I used to think that before the fire. Then my offsite backups restored my digital media, but the physical things were gone 
In short, people suck at backing up digital media. From the article, this guy wants to tackle the problem of obsolete media or even media created with obsolete hardware. Like that poem I wrote on punchcards  |
But fires occur much less frequently that digital obsolence.
Yes, people suck at backing up, because -
1. It costs money, with no apparent gain.
2. It take time and work to do, also with no apparent gain.
and
3. People think that if the data is immortal, the hardware holding it is also. They just don't think that it deteriorates, just like food in a pantry.
That's why I like HTML for reading. Not Mobi, not LRF, not PDF, not Epub. There is so much art in HTML (non book) that being able to read HTML will be a required tool for computers for many years in the future.