User:ThomasW/Notes creativeoftheweb
Preserving the Creative Culture of the Web
Bruce sterling thinks that digital prevention is a futile endeavor
“I used to worry about the floppy disk, now I worry about the universities”
The constant migration to outrun the short lifespan that the mediums have necessitate a constant budget. University don't got money for long term preservation
long term stable environment
The story about the "cray disc" Not abeable to read it, one guy with the disk, no way to read from it.. no infrastror Chris, got a cray disc pack. wanted to data off. everything was that to read it.
He made a audrino magnet reader to get the magnetic off it. Guy from Australia, fly to newyork to get the disk be read off.
Archive (internet archive) and curating methods can merge? Library are taxidermist archive capture firefly's
WGET and VARK
Ephemerality
Lie that Big data is premanent data
Google is archive, like a supermarket is a food museum
Worst to dump thing in a dark archive
Ready Player One
Facebook is sucking up all human knowledge