Rainbow Pile of Obsolescence....

[j_cheney]

Last night I spent some time going through some old files. Computer files, that is.

3.5 inch floppies. Neither of my computers has a floppy drive, but I borrowed my husband's external 3.5 drive, and started hunting for a specific file.

I basically have 3 types of records. Old financial records, old school records, and old writing. I discovered that, for the most part, I have 12 back-ups of everything. Everything is backed up to CD as well.....except for that one file I needed. Why that one's missing, I have no idea.

Fortunately, my father fired up one of his old hard drives and found the file lurking there. (I'd sent him a copy a loooong time ago.)

I also counted nearly 50 unused 3.5 discs, in many flourescent shades.

Obsolete now, more or less. They don't hold enough data to make them worth the effort of saving....not when I have my small herd of flash drives (including the herd leader, the big 8GB.) Kinda sad in a way, as the discs come in lots of pretty colors....

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[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is what will archeologists make of our period of time when the written record just ceases. No one writes letters, anymore, so there’s an important snapshot of daily life – gone. No one keeps diaries anymore, so there’s another important snapshot of daily life – gone. Thoughts, hopes, aspirations, letters put down in blogs and other electronic means will be lost because there won’t be a device on which to play them back. Our 21st Century civilization will seem pretty ephemeral. Heck, even our buildings aren’t built to last, so there won’t be any monuments outside of capitol cities.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Hello! You're on LiveJOURNAL!

I can actually print out my archive, BTW.

[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

Yes, the irony wasn't lost on me.