We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Physical media is not invincible. As much as we'd like it to last forever, media can degrade. For instance, CDs and DVDs experience something ...

I preface this by saying this is of purely historical interest in that no conceivable implementation would be competitive with even a modest USB stick today, but I had the thought that with a suitably ...

Mozy, in a shrewd plug for their online backup service, have created a chart to show how much data our digital collections can hold compared to old analog storage. Have you guys heard of the iPod? It ...

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