Cool photos, but what's sad is that most of the media from today won't be accessible in 50 years.
*soapbox on*
Any magnetic, flash, or optical storage will be toast in that amount of time, if you can find hardware to read it. It already has happened with CD's, both burned, and commercial (they each use a different process). The few die hards (just try and take my AE-1 Program) will have all the marbles.
Any body use there Zip drive lately, or the 5Gig tape backups that were popular a few short years ago? 10 years from now, you might get the same look from someone that now would give you if you mention a mimeograph, unless they know from Family Guy or something.
Granted, we won't need 3 girls 1 cup 50 years from now, but anything that you want to keep, as history has shown us, needs to be on a more stable media. That's why it's the Rosetta STONE, and PARCHMENT documents are found thousands of years later.
These are the shots of St. Petersburg during siege and nowadays. I guess this series was made to commemorate the end of siege, which was on January 27, 1944.
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Date: 2009-01-27 01:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-27 01:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-27 01:44 am (UTC)*soapbox on*
Any magnetic, flash, or optical storage will be toast in that amount of time, if you can find hardware to read it. It already has happened with CD's, both burned, and commercial (they each use a different process). The few die hards (just try and take my AE-1 Program) will have all the marbles.
Any body use there Zip drive lately, or the 5Gig tape backups that were popular a few short years ago? 10 years from now, you might get the same look from someone that now would give you if you mention a mimeograph, unless they know from Family Guy or something.
Granted, we won't need 3 girls 1 cup 50 years from now, but anything that you want to keep, as history has shown us, needs to be on a more stable media. That's why it's the Rosetta STONE, and PARCHMENT documents are found thousands of years later.
*puts soapbox away*
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Date: 2009-01-27 03:35 am (UTC)http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/0128207
Ok, who's peeking in my window?
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Date: 2009-01-27 06:31 am (UTC)On the bright side, it gives us a reason why print media is necessary and FAR from obsolete.
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Date: 2009-01-27 02:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-01-27 05:24 pm (UTC)