Digital Dark Ages?

angkor writes "The digital dark age--Will all the information from this computer age slowly vanish as our delicate hardrives expire? That's what it looks like. Better start printing everything out."

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Ferrous based magnetic tapes last FOREVER!

[AlaskanUnderachiever]

20 years from now we go back through our tape archive. . . only to find that nothing plays the format anymore (tapes? what's a tape? Is that like a holocube?). . . and the tapes are physically falling apart with age. . . and that even the tapes that we CAN play, no one can interpret due to a radical shift in computing technology. . . So yes. . . like all long term backups those tapes will SURE last as long as we need them. . .