Comment by AndroTux
1 day ago
> Old piece of paper is quite accessible
If stored properly.
So are digital copies, though. If stored properly.
1 day ago
> Old piece of paper is quite accessible
If stored properly.
So are digital copies, though. If stored properly.
You need a machine (hardware and software) to read digital copies, not just the digital copies.
And you need to know how to read to read paper copies. Same thing, essentially. Anyone speaking hieroglyphics fluently? Point is, if you take care of your archive and make sure it remains accessible, it doesn't really matter whether it's digital or analog.
Not at all the same thing - what equipment do you need to read hieroglyphs on top of understanding the language (which goes for digital, too)? If you have the paper and understand the language, that's it. We already can see that accessing old digital data isn't necessarily easy if it wasn't always kept on/converted to current media and formats (will we keep that up for millenia)?
And both storage can be broken, needing reconstruction.
If I were to give you a 70y old book in English vs some 70y tape with data on - which one is easier to read?
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