‘Ancient’ screeds

Posted on July 26, 2006
Filed Under All, Weblogging |

With a little help from the Way Back Machine I’ve resurrected much of gulker.com 1997’s longer posts, most or all of which were published in The Independent (London). We have those bits sitting on hard drives in a bin in my home office. Hooking them up (anybody have a machine with a SCSI port that will also recognize Apple’s old HFS file system?) represents some challenges.

It’s easier to grab the pages from the Internet Archive and Google’s cache. Which I think, speaks volumes to the future of archiving. Put everything in the cloud, and let experts worry about moving your data as hardware and storage device standards come and go. Interestring trust model…