{"id":518,"date":"2005-11-14T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T23:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=518"},"modified":"2005-11-09T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T20:19:37","slug":"digital-dark-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/11\/14\/digital-dark-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Dark Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is common sense to anyone in the business.<br \/>\nHonest.  When was the last time you tried to find a computer that used a floppy disk?  Have you even touched a floppy in the past year?  If so, I think you&#8217;re in the minority.  But, soon it may be true for something that IT Professionals (ie. professional geeks) have most likely dealt with: backup tapes.  I&#8217;ve lost count of how many different kinds of backup systems I&#8217;ve used over the years and you know, most of them only would read tapes from one or two generations back.  I wonder how many businesses have their archival data stored on tapes that they can&#8217;t read anymore&#8230;<br \/>\nBut, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/technology\/the-digital-dark-age\/2005\/09\/22\/1126982184206.html?oneclick=true\">this article on smh.com.au regarding a coming digital Dark Age <\/a>might be news to some of my readers here.  Or, at least, it might not be something that they&#8217;ve really considered.  Imagine getting some really interesting, but obscure, documents on a system that you can&#8217;t acess.  Say, a CD-ROM in the far future.  It&#8217;s labelled and all, so the finders know what is supposed to be on the disk, but they don&#8217;t have a system to read it.  What do they do?  Thaw out that crusty, old twenty-first century computer geek so he can tell them what to do?  Build a new system to read the old storage media?  Find an alien to do one of the above?  The possibilites for story are almost endless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is common sense to anyone in the business. Honest. When was the last time you tried to find a computer that used a floppy disk? Have you even touched a floppy in the past year? If so, I think you&#8217;re in the minority. But, soon it may be true for something that IT Professionals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,35,14,28,30,33],"tags":[699,698],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-ideas-and-suggestions","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","category-writing","tag-backup-systems","tag-storage-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}