On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:22:22PM -0600, Robert Rolf wrote:

> "Forgot to copy". EXACTLY the problem. Amazing how much valuable history is
> found in unexpected places when homes are emptied of their contents during a move.

Yet, at the same time with digital stuff that people spend even a little
bit of effort keeping... will remain forever. I have programs I wrote
10 years ago, and I will have them 50 years from now. Exactly the same
as the day I typed them in. Why? Because keep a little (ha!) directory
called d/ which is backed up on three continents. And almost everything
I do I have in open-source revision control systems, either CVS or
subversion/SVK.

Can't say that with all the analog film pictures I've taken. Even
Kodakchrome fades in the long run.

Of course historians might find our choices of what to save rather
skewed for their purposes... heck, look at www.archive.org...

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