Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 10, 2004 @05:36AM from the oh-if-all-the-things-lost-were-found dept.

axlrosen writes "The NYTimes has an article about the problems of digital archiving. How many of your digital memories will still be around 50 years from now, considering lost disks, incompatible formats, hard drive crashes, fading CD-Rs, etc.? Unfortunately Peter Briggs' solution won't work for most of us. The only real way to make sure that your grandkids get to see your digital photos is to make real photographic prints from them. (When I bought my Mom a digital camera I installed Picasa for her, and made sure she knows to order real prints of all the pictures she wants to survive through the ages...)"

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Re:Yeah, because that what we need. by HarveyBirdman · 2004-11-10 05:51 · Score: 0, Troll

And they're sharing the PWECIOUS photos on their color iPods now.
When someone shows me a picture of their widdle PWECIOUS baybee, I wonder how tall a building over which I could drop kick the stupid, drooling thing.
I hate happy people. :-(

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