OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Sat Jun 3 18:22:38 2000

On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 03:00:43PM -0800, Mike Ford wrote:
>My wife's home town is Corona, California, its claim to fame is that it has
>LOST the last three time capsules it buried someplace.

I know the feeling ... in December I phoned my old grade school to find out
what the plan was for digging up the time capsule we buried around 1974 or so,
to be opened in the year 2000, and it was long gone. Evidently they'd expanded
the school building and dug up that area at some point. They're pretty sure
someone found the time capsule during the excavation and put it safely in
a storage shed, but the shed later burned down (there's a housing project
next door so everything gets vandalized sooner or later). Way to go!

It wasn't a very well-thought-out plan to begin with, we should have
specified "*summer* 2000", because on Jan. 1 the ground would have been
frozen anyway.

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Sat Jun 03 2000 - 18:22:38 BST