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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 04-Oct-2020 13:17:08 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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   Thousands of years from now, no one will know that you or I existed. Even so, our existence and our actions create lasting effects that spread throughout society like waves on a pond.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Monday, 05-Oct-2020 12:59:26 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     We know people from 1000s of years ago existed and they didn't have the records we have now. Why do you think no one will know about us?
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 05-Oct-2020 23:03:06 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     • clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @clacke @musicman All it would take to lose almost everything digital is a prolonged global power outage.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 05-Oct-2020 23:22:07 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     ... and that's even without format obsolescence ... there are files from just a few years ago that have no working reader software. We suppose that future societies will happen to have tape and optical drive readers, but that is unlikely.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2020 12:05:54 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     I think my thesis paper at the School of Information and Library Science is pretty well archived.
     
     I've been in a number newspapers. I feel like Newspapers get archived pretty well.
     
     I really doubt there won't be a record of my existence. That doesn't mean anyone will care. It also doesn't mean anyone will be able to put the newspapers from multiple states together into a single picture.