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What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)
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Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

We would definitely lose some data but I'm guessing there's a few hundred backups of Wikipedia and the important stuff floating around.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A huge solar storm could wipe out the backups too unless they're stored in a deep vault or something.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Solar storms arent really a risk for small electronics, more so if they aren't connected to the grid. You wouldn't need a deep vault, more like a cupboard.

    There is a risk the hard drives wear out before society gets the grid back online and restarts producing hard drives though. We already don't have that many facilities and they would certainly be taken offline, and the knowledge to build those facilities, that might get lost properly when the storm would hit.

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