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    OMG! Ponies!: Yeah. Big ominous cable with a label that says "LOOK BUT DON'T TOUCH". That will keep prying fingers away from the geeks. more »
    strider_mt2k: HEEEY, has anyone seen my N-to-BNC adapter? Anyone? more »
    David Vong: I swear I've seen this article before, is this a rerun or stolen from someone else? more »
    Purple Dave: If your DVDs are going bad in a little over five years, then perhaps you should stop filing them in the sandbox. more »
    Jesse in Japan: For the really important data, you've got to get it tattooed all over your body. more »
    fuchikoma: I've known about this for a while, and I have ten year old CDs that have gone south (and a surprising number that are still ok...) but sadly the techn... more »
    Jonny Morris: This is a huge problem for government too. Back in the day, to comply with various regulations for achiving govt. publications, it was easy enough to ... more »
    Sora57: I archived my home movies shot on 8mm/16mm/and videotape to DVD and keep the original source material in a cool, dry dark place. In a few years, I'll ... more »
    nutbastard: nah you gotta carve it all into stone. 100101101010010101010100000101...^999999999999999999999999999 more »
    Kaiser-Machead: Well, I also consider that any truly important documents will either be part of public record that I can retrieve, or eventually lose relevance as the... more »
    nachobel: bring back the scribes! more »
    Brazell: The vast majority of stuff saved on your computer is complete trash that should fade away and degrade with the medium that's holding it. Anything true... more »
    Monty: The alternative is that our information will live on forever, and at the rate we are accumulating this data, that would probably be as bad as the conc... more »
    Hello Mister Walrus: My pron! Oh noes!! more »
    GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: I always wonder if there is a Rosetta Room somewhere. Meaning a room filled with a variety of different media readers/displays and a way to power the... more »
  • #network

    The Network Before the Internet

    The network started to breathe in the 70's. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC's labs by Boing Boing Gadgets. Dag Spicer, numero uno Curator at the Computer History Museum, tells us more: More »
  • #saving

    There's No Great Solution for Data Rot

    Anyone who reads Giz probably knows that even though your data is "saved," it's still susceptible to the decay of whatever medium is storing it. According to one expert, the problem is nearly unsolvable. More »