Super ancient interstellar traveling race… didn’t have a written language.
Yeah man, that’s makes sense.
They were so advanced, all their records were stored on computers. Then their security vendor pushed an update.
That makes me think… I fully expect history to view our current information age as a digital dark ages once everything on the Internet is lost.
I went to a weird conference about 10 years ago and it was very much about data retrieval and long term storage of digital media. I’d say that the speaker was 80% dead on and 20% full of shit. One thing he was very clear about: he lost his own wedding photos due to his own overconfidence in digital storage technology and his wife is still deeply pissed about it.
I still have my wedding photos on CD rom somewhere, so I’m sure they’re safe. /s
In related news, my parents are downsizing and my mom just asked me if I wanted my great-grandparents’ wedding certificate. It’s in great condition.
Yeah. Maybe the old folks had it right printing emails lol
Copy those photos now. 20 years ago I was obsessed with burning DVD’s to last a long time. I researched the best quality media that was rated for 100 years (Verbatim AZZO). I used diagnostic tools from a specialized cd burning forum that showed the pi/pio errors so you knew if you had made a quality burned DVD. (Even though burners were rated 2x-16x, each burner had a sweet spot of minimal errors for a particular media. In my case it was 4x.)
Last year my niece said the wedding photo DVD I gave her 15 years ago was unreadable. I checked my extra copies that had been kept in the basement in black dvd storage containers and they were bad too. Fortunately I had backups on hard drives that I migrate every few years from server to server.
Unpowered USB or SSD’s that haven’t been refreshed are only good for 10 years too.
Every year I pick out my favorite pictures of the year and print a physical photo album.
I’m seeing fossilized gnome fetus. How do I use this to scam people?
All these alien and wackjob FB conspiracy posts seem like someone is just asking Chat GPT to spit out the wackiest conspiracy theory it can come up with, then posting it as an “article.”
