25 Sep
2004
25 Sep
'04
5:03 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Merchberger" <zmerch(a)30below.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: archiving as opposed to backing up
Over 2000 years ago, the ancient Romans & Greeks
*knew* the Earth was
round
and orbited the sun. However, it seems all references
to that knowledge
was
unavailable by the 1st millennium, when people once
again thought the
world
was flat, and stayed that way for over 500 years. Had
they access to the
Roman and Greek libraries (assuming they existed, but I'd bet they kept
their written documents somewhere) who knows what tech. advances (or wars
averted) would have been possible.
The library at Alexandria ( I think it was ) was destroyed by fire and a lot
of old knowledge in the form of scrolls was lost at that time .
Geoff.