Yesterday I took some old floppy disks and, one by one, started to copy their content on my HD. Once a time, I used to back up my web discussion on floppy like that in simple text files and many other things. Even Sim City 2000 saved cities. I found files with 1996-01-31 17:53:32 as timestamp, old holiday homework papers, documents, even some leaflets I’ve written when my university try to close a free access Informatics laboratory. When I had only a 56k, that laboratory was my window on the web, and I collected 116 signatures, a good number for a small provincial branch.
This year, that branch closed enrolment for the student of the 1st year, and probably it’ll be closed soon. I’ve lost contact with my old colleagues, even theirs blogs are freezed for months. I back to some of that discussion, and I found forum closed some years ago.
If data are ephemeral, what of our relations? Infrastructure survives to the scope, data remains.
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