19 Nov
2021
19 Nov
'21
10:23 p.m.
On 11/19/21 6:33 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
Michael asked
To me, it's mind-boggling thinking of the stuff that has been lost--even
a lot of my own work while under employment. Unless tapes mysteriously
turn up, it's all gone.
Much of human history, it seems, has been written in drifting sand. But
it's always been thus.
--Chuck
What are we, as a community, to do to fix this
and make sure that our
history stays peserved and isn't one bad day away from vanishing.
Whenever some new vintage computing page appears I go to archive.org and submit the
URL to them for the wayback machine. Often they've crawled it already, but not
always
so I think it does help.