Saturday, January 25, 2003
Had an excellent night out at the bar, and when we returned to our appartment we found several large parties going on, so we joined one that our neighbor was having. It was like a flsahback to 1998... drinking with a bunch of 19 year-olds can really make you feel your age....
After the party, as I cruised the information superhighway while waiting to sober up enough to goto sleep, I came a across and intersting article on Cnet here. It details a group of MIT students who bought a whole bunch of used hard-drives and pillaged them for old-data. They recovered scores of credit card numbers, personal financial transactions, and gigabytes of p0rn. Which got me thinking about the yet-to-emerge field of digital-archeology... Today people dig in the dirt to find clues about how people lived in eons past, and in the future people will only have to analyse old data-storage devices to uncover massive amounts of data about "old" civilizations... Just think about that archives of "anchient p0rn" that will be compiled by scholars in like 2098 from all of our tossed out 100GB drives
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posted by JMV |
1/25/2003 01:40:00 PM
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