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The Pushmi-Pullyu Impact of Technology Innovation on Information Preservation

AIIM

On the one hand , technology has revolutionized both the access and potential value of very long-term archival information -- much of which originated as paper -- exposing it to the light of day after years in the basement and giving it new life. It also meant some posts to alt.war.civil news groups. Why didn’t I just do a web search?