Digital Domesday Defies Doom

Hulver writes "The BBC Domesday project, originally completed in 1986 and under threat (as reported in this old slashdot story) has had its data recovered. The contents of the laserdiscs have been put on DVD, and new programs written so that PCs can access the data. Interestingly, most of the images and films were not recovered from the laserdiscs, but were instead re-digitised from the original analog films at a higher resolution than the laserdiscs contained. Full details of the recovered data are at the Public Record Office website."

Comments

Here come the "they mispelled Doomsday" posts!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see how quickly it happens.

Uh?

[The Bungi]

from the obsoletion-defeation dept.

michael, you font of knowledge you. I wondered what the hell 'defeation' was so I Googled it. I must say I understand what Google is suggesting.

Re:Uh?

[bj8rn]

This is language evolving right under your nose, and you make fun of it!?! It was people like you who killed Latin! Michael is a language pioneer!

pft..

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't it be "Digital Doomsday Defies Dome"?

wait.. dOh!

Re:Your forget one thing though

[happystink]

U think so? me 2. tru! LOL!

Re:Something else this reminds me of

[garyok]

The best idea I heard of was to make the site inaccessible by covering it in a huge slab of black concrete. The concrete soaks up all the heat, becomes a big storage heater storing more and more heat over time and anybody that gets too close gets cooked.

Of course, you'd hope that in the future people would be bright enough stay away from the place where the trees have tentacles and the squirrels shoot laser beams out their eyes.

Re:Something else this reminds me of

[b-baggins]

This has GOT to be a joke. You're asking this question using a computer connected to the internet? This can't be a serious question...