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Case Studies - The Domesday Book

Just Because It's New, Doesn't Mean It's Better
A videographer told me recently that I should order my wedding video on DVD (for an extra $150) because, unlike videotape, DVD's "will last forever".
Meanwhile, the BBC reports that a copy of the Domesday book put on Laserdiscs in 1985 is unreadable because the machines to read them are obsolete.
The paper version, printed in 1086, can be read just fine, thank you very much.
See the BBC article on the Domesday Book here.
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