I had emails back then from both home and work (and BBS rimemail and fido) all burned to CD’s for archival. Found them 10 years ago in storage, none were still readable. :(
Yeah. I mean, I knew that was a possibility, I’d read that plenty of times… I’d think, oh, I need to transfer those someday. Someday. Aaaaand it’s gone. :(
I’m a bit of a digital pack rat but I can’t imagine having kept everything since the early 90s.
I had emails back then from both home and work (and BBS rimemail and fido) all burned to CD’s for archival. Found them 10 years ago in storage, none were still readable. :(
Aww. That’s disappointing. cd-rw really don’t have the best shelf life unfortunately.
Yeah. I mean, I knew that was a possibility, I’d read that plenty of times… I’d think, oh, I need to transfer those someday. Someday. Aaaaand it’s gone. :(