Let’s be kind and respectful, please.
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With all due respect, I find it kind of silly.
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In which case one can graciously decline to participate.
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While I find this whole thing quite humorous, a career in IT has me really concerned. This does happen… it is not fantasy… Our databases of photos, music, documents etc, are now becoming very old and rarely accessed. One can mitigate this be having backups and backups of backups which I do, but who wants to deal with failures? They can be a royal pain to deal with.
Peace
Bruce in Philly (now Atlanta)
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I have an old wornout suitcase of old photos, some from my grreat grandparents, and many of tbem are still very wrll preserved.
I don’t think any of my digital photos will fair as well, and get passed down. Part of tbe reason.being the drives they are on will be obsolete in the years to come.
Long live analog
I agree. I am now, very slowly, transcribing all my old documentation to stone tablets… once you get the hang of the hammer and chisel, it ain’t so bad.
Peace
Bruce in Philly
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Clay – much quicker to work with and the ones from Sumer are 4,000 years old at this point. You should bake them but still much more efficient than stone and chisels.
Just a thought. 
Or you could just print them out and have them laminated
but stone is more stable when it rains
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I have been listening to my old CD ripped files and downloads that I have not listened to for a long-time beginning last night, and most of them sounded better than I remembered in fact. It really tells me that my system sounded way better than a few years ago.
I just started to listen to files from internal SSD of MU2 again. I am almost done with A files, and so far, every file has played just fine. 
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If only the right prints from ‘Sumer’ will be found in another 4,000 years!
It wasn’t my intent to suggest they were. I was simply saying I had the same experience as others with CDRs that became unplayable over time. As for how CDs escape this fate, I’ll take your word.
This bit rot business helped me to enjoy my old library tremendously. I am listening to old music files that I did not know I had (more like don’t remember since they were put in a small dark place).
Darn! I have a lot of gems that all sound excellent (most are older CDs). I am still on A files, and I do not know if I have finished 1/100 of 4TB+ yet.
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Use it or lose it.