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Thursday, January 23, 2003
Coming Soon: A Digital Dark Age? - Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press
..."There's kind of a common misperception about digital lasting forever," said Howard Besser, director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University. "It comes out of the fact that a digital copy is a perfect copy." Consider the fate of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s computer-based collection of photographs, writings and other snapshots of life in 1986, the 900th anniversary of the written English survey, the Domesday Book. While scholars can still read the 1086 tome, the digital version needs customized software and hardware that are breaking down from old age, meaning records from just 17 years ago are rapidly vanishing. NASA's early space records are suffering a similar fate, as Joe Miller recently discovered....
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