• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    How many in fifty years can?

    Why on Earth would we lose the ability to read simple magnetic storage?

    Yes, I can read data off floppy disk today due to having a floppy drive somewhere in my storage. And even if I didn’t, it’d cost like at most 50 euros to get even a new reader. Get one off Amazon for 20 bucks.

    It’s rather trivial. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_storage

    And what data exactly are there on floppy disks that isn’t on other media? Like… globally culturally significant data.

    Can you read ancient Greek? I can’t, but I still know about the Trojan Horse. I can’t read Biblical Hebrew, but I know about the ten commandments. How?