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May 8, 2006 :: Volume 2, Issue 4
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Even Digital Memories Can Disappear Forever

Posted by TimSlavin at November 10, 2004

"The nation's 115 million home computers are brimming over with personal treasures - millions of photographs, music of every genre, college papers, the great American novel and, of course, mountains of e-mail messages.

Yet no one has figured out how to preserve these electronic materials for the next decade, much less for the ages. Like junk e-mail, the problem of digital archiving, which seems straightforward, confounds even the experts."

Nice thought piece from the New York Times (free registration required; content is free only a short while).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/technology/10archive.html

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