CD Burn, Rot and Lost.

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A few years ago at Christmastime, I was looking for a CD to burn some data onto. So I dug up an old CD-R package that must have been sitting in my room for the last decade or so, and it looked like it had seen better days. This year, when my sister went home, she found some CDs she had burned while she was attending UCLA. On most of them, the data was inaccessible. I kept everything on Zip Drive when I was in college. After the last move, I managed to get the Zip disks and move them onto my external harddrives. It was fun looking at the old things that I had worked on and designed, but at the same time, it was one of those works that while I might have been proud of doing during my college years, certainly didn't stand the test of time well.
Sometimes data is better off lost.
Burned CDs don't last forever




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