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[godiva696]

I find this hilarious: 16 years ago, BBC decided to create a digital form of the Domesday Book, with information supplied by over a million people, video and sound clips, distribution stats and more of the population of Great Britain. 16 years ago

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[hmmm_tea]

Then again, not knowing Latin I could probably extract about the same amount of information from either source.

[godiva696]

Not true - the numbers would at least be clear, and the place names haven't changed all that much. Therefore you'd be significantly better off with the original than with the one that can't even be accessed.

It's still endlessly amusing that they created this up-to-date version of Domesday, only for it to be so much less useful than the tried and true book format...

[hmmm_tea]

But then again, they've written an emulator to access the BBC disks and so it's not less useful because you can access the data out of it.

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[hmmm_tea]

...and if you can get your hands on the original equipment (from car boot sales, etc) and a copy of the disks, then it's possible to get them to work.

Such as here

[godiva696]

Yeah - sooo much easier than a book, neh? ;-)

[godiva696]

I suppose you can access the info then - but not without the equipment, which is a pain to find, and useful for pretty much nothing else nowadays!

[hmmm_tea]

but not without the equipment, which is a pain to find, and useful for pretty much nothing else nowadays!

in a similar way to Latin then.

[godiva696]

Ah, but Latin is decipherable to most laymen. And doesn't cost anything if you don't really care about grammar.

[godiva696]

I won't argue about the usefulness, though... (Actually, I never thought the Domesday Book was at all useful, though several lecturers attempted to change my mind.)