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The internet is populated with legions of amateur digital archivists, archaeologists, and resurrectionists. They track down the original code for lost treasures such as Space Invaders (1978), Pac-Mac (1980), and Frogger (1981), and they collaborate on devising emulation software that lets the primordial programs play on contemporary machines. The emulation techniques pioneered by such vernacular programmers are at present the most promising path to a long-term platform migration solution. Such massively distributed research can convene enormous power. For instance, thanks to the current interest in genealogy, the thousands of users of a program called Family Tree-Maker are linking their research into a World Family Tree on the Web. So far it has tied together seventy-five thousand family trees, a total of fifty million names. The goal, once unthinkable, is to eventually document and link every named human who ever lived. - S. Brand
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:45:23 +0000

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