Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoand that’s why I left all my 360 games on top of the TV all these years. we rotate them out as coasters just to make sure they’re still getting used.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
One of my first jobs in IT I worked in a local newspaper - I thought I wanted to be a journalist turns out it’s boring. Anyway we had all the old archived papers on a dvd and someone used it as a coaster and erased about 10 years worth of files. Naturally there were zero backups, so that data was just gone. Fantastic.
Fortunately the local library has backups but they’re on microfiche, so not particularly convenient. I think Google might have scanned them now though so they’re probably archived again.
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
Google made thier cached pages inaccessible though, better to check the way back machine.