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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

[parttimegoddess]

I liked that a lot, the humble book should never be forgotten, even when confronted with pretty shiny things that tell us lots of stuff! * grins manically, as drinking coffee and revising for a business accoutns exam never does one's sanity any good!*

[godiva696]

Sanity is highly overrated.
Also, I feel sooo smug about the book. Heh. Storage is such a big problem with the digital world - now I'm studying e-books, it's very obvious how far it's got to go before it can even think of replacing the almighty Print. ;-)
Miss you. *hugs*