Sunday, July 18, 2010
92) Digital Database with information on Mail-Art
This blog gradually is growing and contains already quite some information. Most Mail-Artists trust the Internet to archive things, but I am a bit sceptical on that. Archiving is done by mostly by humans, maybe using computers as their tools. Therefore I archive most of the things I publish online also in printed form. Just because that might last longer than digital stuff. Am I old-fashioned or are there others who work like that?
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I like to see and feel real paper. Am planning to keep my sent items in a printed version, too (and would indeed do so when my printer wouldn't have problems now).
Though I am not afraid that digital things on the internet will get lost. It's the contrary: sometimes it is very hard (or even impossible) to get rid of things once published on the world wide web! :o)
(and paper can disappear, vanish, mould, too!..)
Because I work with computers for over 35 years now I know that the digital formats change all the time. So the stuff from the 80-ies and 90-ies only are available for me in printed form. There wasn't the Internet as there is now. We'll see how the future developes...
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