I've been trying to sort through some old external hard drives I had in storage and one big challenge is even finding the right cables and in some cases trying to find an old laptop with the right firewire connector or whatever. (This is *not* a request for advice, just an observation.)
One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period.
Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so.
variety.com/2024/tv/news...
Years ago during a move I came across a box of Zip, Jaz, and Syquest cartridges that I hadn’t had drives for in almost a decade at that point. I could only assume if I hadn’t needed the files by then, they were garbage as there was no hope of gaining access to them without major effort and expense.
I cleared out some 30 year old floppies for this reason. Might have been something interesting on them, the amount of effort it would have taken to find out was nothing I was interested in.
