Fingers crossed we can find a few more episodes of Doctor Who as well. The cache of tapes found a few years ago at a TV station were a wonderful find.
Basically, 40% of the episodes of the first six ~~years~~ seasons of Doctor Who (~~1967-73~~ 1963-69, First and Second Doctors) and a few more until 1978 only survive as audio clips and still frames. Finding actual footage would be great to fill these gaps in the serials (Doctor Who stories come in groups of episodes).
Edits: Doctor Who started at 1963, not 1967. Also spelling and an extra line.
god i want to see marco polo so bad
Here's the depressing thought of the day: for every byte of Unix v4 archive that's been lovingly rescued from data storage rot for months, there's a million more containing important bits of human knowledge that disappear every second.
A few times since I started journalling I've reflected on how much information in a given day is lost due to it not being "interesting" enough to be written down - and - how the information that makes it through the filter of my own viewpoint could be interpreted by other people who don't live within my context.
In short: if post-apocalyptic humans have nothing other than my journal to rebuild the collective knowledge of our species... we're truly fooked. They'll know the horrors of Microsoft Teams or how friendly the bus driver was.
But for more important things, it made me really re-evaluate just how challenging the maintenance of our collective knowledge is and how as time goes on it gets harder and harder to correctly parse the original source ourselves: instead relying on the interpretations of others who had a closer frame of reference to ours - but - a lens of their own that we have to account for to.
Time to write on some big ass rocks again!
But really in some ways as tech and storage of info has gotten more dense it really has gotten more fragile and harder to maintain over long periods of time. We may have (m-)disks that can last for decades and more but would the reader last?
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