In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, Axel Berger   wrote:
> There are five thousand year old clay tablets perfectly legible today. I
> myself have helped a little in transcribing and translating Latin and
> Hebrew manuscripts from the 12th and 13th century. I've just ordered an
> antiquarian book from 1903 that will arrive in a few days. My own
> web-pages with embedded video were perfectly valid when I wrote them
> only ten years ago and I'm certainly not going to redo them all now just
> because the fashion in skirt length is slightly different this season.

Yeah, but who or what is going to be able to read the disks a decade
after your death and what is going to understand the binary format of
the video files in 100 years?

Look at the 1980s BBC Domesday Project, an attempt to make a modern
version of the 1080s Domesday Book -- a recording for the doom's day
of everything important in England. The BBC product used reasonably
archival LV-ROM discs. But the archivalness of the disks was not matched
by the archivalness of LV-ROM readers. I have never in my life seen an
actual LV-ROM disc or reader, only the related LaserDisc for movies
discs and systems. And we all know how common those are.

> Read and understand why and for what purpose Tim Berners-Lee devised
> HTML and HTTP and what he had to say about interoperability and
> enduring standards.

You are probably preaching to the choir here. I doubt this crowd was
ever clamoring to create Flash web programs.

Elijah
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kinda liked Flash as an animation media, but not for serious interfaces

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