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The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf]

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Re: The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf]

#31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A properly developed, stopped, fixed, washed black and white negative stored in a box in reasonable temperature conditions isn't going to fade for a very long time.

And a digital image with a text file accompanying it describing the image format is similarly resilient. Heck, you could provide text describing the format within the image file. Also, I'll note that the comment I responded to specifically claimed that positive images last forever.

The problem isn't that it's digital. The problem is where do you store it? Hardrives, CDs, floppy disks? All of that stuff has a very limited lifetime, after which it simply stops working. And even if it continues to work, what are your chances of being able to buy a CD reader in five to ten years?

The big difference between analog and digital is that with analog, you can simply stuff it in a box and it will stay there. With digital, you have to take the time every now and then to make sure that you don't lose that stuff. And do you really think that you (or someone else, when you are gone) will be doing that properly? I mean, you will most likely have forgotten why that stuff was even "important" in a few years.

There's so much great stuff our generation is going to lose, simply because we'll forget to migrate our backups.

Re: The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf]

#33

One of the sad consequences of perpetual copyrights is that copies of interesting items are not being made, and hence risk getting lost completely.

A good example of this is the early iOS game Rolando . Once the Angry Birds of its time, it's now just... gone.

This Rolando?

http://rolando.ngmoco.com/

Re: The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf]

#34

One of the sad consequences of perpetual copyrights is that copies of interesting items are not being made, and hence risk getting lost completely.

See the graph on this page, it's very sad: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120330/12402418305/why-m...

Also many old films have been lost for similar reasons.

Re: The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf]

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Cuneiform Tables vs 2013/2014: http://imgur.com/IaiqCXX

Yes but the storage space of the clay tablet is a dealbreaker. It could maybe store 1 kb. And the file format has been lost, and is only usable by historians that have spent decades decrypting it.

Re: The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf]

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good example of this is the early iOS game Rolando . Once the Angry Birds of its time, it's now just... gone.

This Rolando? http://rolando.ngmoco.com/

Yes. I remember it from 2008, when gaming press for iOS was trying to become a thing, some guys have published a great and expensively produced video reviews of iOS games, and this was one of the best games they ever reviewed.
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