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I am really amazed that a ships log from 132 years ago was retained and is still available. Is this a common thing?
Interesting if digital records will be quite as permanent as paper record; Will the problem of data loss be solved some day? Hard to know.
Write a note on your iPad. Remove that silly pin number, turn it off. Put it in a bag. Put it in the attic. Live your life and forget all about it. 130 years later, the now obsolete technology is found. Boy they are gonna have a hard time reading that note you left. This is when we get to appreciate a medium such as text. Our information is becoming more and more complicated to the point that it might become impossib…
TL;DR if you're making something, and it turns into something great, make sure your older stuff, the stuff you did to work towards it, is archived somehow.
That message lasted longer than any URL on the web will.
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That Lego are durable and don't rot is, I would say, a feature not a bug. (It would be better if they were practically recyclable, OTOH.)
Lego are made from ABS, and ABS can be recycled.
What time is it. Where am I. What is my name. Where am I from. Who is my captain. Where have I come from. Where am I going to. This note in a bottle knows more about itself than I do.
Well, it knows where it wants to go to. Arrival is not guaranteed. This may still be more than you and I know about ourselves, though.
Write a note on your iPad. Remove that silly pin number, turn it off. Put it in a bag. Put it in the attic. Live your life and forget all about it. 130 years later, the now obsolete technology is found. Boy they are gonna have a hard time reading that note you left. This is when we get to appreciate a medium such as text. Our information is becoming more and more complicated to the point that it might become impossib…
You see it happening already, people are finding e.g. old tape drives from MOS Technology ( http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5256 ) which could contain valuable information about the design of some older processors and such, but they're unreadable and/or rotted. Same for older films, which are finally getting painstakingly restored and digitized. TL;DR if you're making something, and it turns into something great,…
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You see it happening already, people are finding e.g. old tape drives from MOS Technology ( http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5256 ) which could contain valuable information about the design of some older processors and such, but they're unreadable and/or rotted. Same for older films, which are finally getting painstakingly restored and digitized. TL;DR if you're making something, and it turns into something great,…
Would vinyl records make a better long-term storage medium than CDs or magnetic tapes?
I found a message in a bottle in Hamburg. Never did figure out what it says though. If anyone on HN is up for the challenge, here's a photo of it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TximCkxHoliDmnwy1
Could you tell a bit more about where, when, how you found it?