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    Net pioneer warns of data Dark Age

    BBC News - Google's Vint Cerf warns of 'digital Dark Age'

    Vint Cerf, a "father of the internet", says he is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost.
    I can see where he is coming from with the amount of backwards compatibility that is missing from newer applications but is it really a problem?

    Lucky the BBC has already cancelled its Digital Media Initiative
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    #2
    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    BBC News - Google's Vint Cerf warns of 'digital Dark Age'



    I can see where he is coming from with the amount of backwards compatibility that is missing from newer applications but is it really a problem?

    Lucky the BBC has already cancelled its Digital Media Initiative
    wait until you try and stream a BBC radio station through your sonos players this weekend....

    I'm sure Vint is not the first person to mention that the early 21st century will be seen as a dark age in the future. One reason is that you need to be proactive in storing stuff when previously it easy just to store stuff aware in a draw.

    The effort involved in recovering the BBC's doomsday project of 1986 was a clue as to the problem...
    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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      #3
      Originally posted by eek View Post
      wait until you try and stream a BBC radio station through your sonos players this weekend....
      What's happening to sonos players this weekend? I can guess but details would be handy.
      Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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