A biggee your kids will never know is the 5 1/4 floppy disk drive on a computer. AND, not having a hard drive at all!

Damn, Marc, you made me feel old. I was in high school when TNG came out - grade nine (Ninth Grade for you Americans).

I really enjoyed this topic.

In ranking Star wars, I go 4,5,3,6,2,1.

I was 4 when I was taken to Star Wars, and that movie not only rocked my world, it defined the rest of my life. Much better than the Memorial Cup hockey game we couldn't get tickets to.

I also sent away for the Admiral Ackbar figure, he didn't even come with a weapon - all he had was a space swagger stick. He was not the first one i sent away for though, we had enough to get not one, not two, but THREE Boba Fett characters. They were the Fete brothers, Boba, Coca, and Dodo.

My kids will never use CDs.
I'm unreasonably angry about this.

Great topic, guys!

I'm 18 and I remember everything you guys were talking about, from using those old VHS tapes to having to carry those freaking encyclopedias around. Kids today have it so damn easy, they have everything at their finger tips. They don't have to work as hard as we all did.
As far as ranking Star Wars goes, I have to agree with Todd's order of 5, 4, 3, 2, & 1.
I fucking love Star Wars and I'm proud to say that I'm a huge Star Wars geek.

I still interact with Cassette's to this day, about to listen to this ep it looks like a good one.

Despite being a horrible medium for many reasons cassettes have archival usefulness that CDs never will.
There's a ton of stuff that is only on tape.

Almost everything on CD-R came from a hard drive if not the internet in the first place.

Tod get Blu Ray, get a PS3 they're cheap as shit now and the title selection is far ahead of where DVD was this early into it's life cycle, Marc is right Streaming HD is fine but if you don't care for Digital Artifacting then it's not the solution for you, Blu Ray is amazing, it's painful to watch 480p now, do it for you Tod!

I loved the AOL talk, good times, this is a very interesting ep, I don't know of any other show discussing this kind of stuff and the old NES discussion was also great.

harlingtoxad, technically cassettes are no better or worse a medium than a CD-R or the same quality when it comes to long term storage.

The main difference is how the information is stored. If cassettes were digital they would have the same bad rep as CD-Rs. For proper archiving, cassettes require much more maintenance (a 1x end to end run /year - which is never done). How many 1x headless tape winders have you seen in your life? This does not take into account stretch and wear.

That being said, the best way to store data is on acid free paper, second is an uninstalled hard drive in an enclosure.

For archivists of the future the current era will be viewed as in information desert since the majority of today's offline content will be lost.