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EvanAnderson ◴[09 Oct 25 23:58 UTC] No.45534239[source]▶

Back in the days when a wide variety of removable digital media flourished (floppy disks, various flavors of tapes, ZIP and JAZ drives, Syquest and Bernoulli cartridges, mag-op WORM, etc) a friend and I joked about how we needed a "Cuneiform drive" to write to and bake sheets of clay because, compared to all the storage formats we were using, Cuneiform actually held up over time.

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1. itsnowandnever ◴[10 Oct 25 13:35 UTC] No.45538844[source]▶

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I think about this when it comes to the internet and AI all the time. all of this knowledge we have access to required a very complex global supply chain and surplus of people with specific technical skills to maintain. if the USA has any major disruptive events - natural disasters, political instability, etc - the burning of the Library of Alexandria will pale in comparison

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