[inforoots] "The digital Dark Age" (Sydney Morning Herald)

[Michael Hart]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike Albaugh wrote:

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> Two things:
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> The "deep link" did not work, but the library one did.
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> He's been worried since 1999? I started getting really
> worried the first time I tried to open a Word(tm)
> document in the next version, Mid 1980s.
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> "Close, but no cigar", and then realized that my careful
> preservation of old files on new media, in different
> locations,  was only half the battle, and probably the
> easier half.
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>  Mike


Right!

Just another of many reasons to keep/use plain text files!


Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg