<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Maintainers,</div><div><br></div><div>First, thanks for all the interesting discussions and links! Enjoyable and relevant in a stressful time...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Second, a request. A friend asks if there are any good histories of 'backup'? No more detail than that, but perhaps it helps to think about this in an open-ended way... References/suggestions very welcome, backchannel if you feel it's too specific to send to the whole list.</div><div><br></div><div>My friend also adds this comment, which you might like: "Did you know? Despair about unwanted copies is a huge part of the history of safety duplication. Giving rise to the phenomenon of deduplication."</div><div><br></div><div>All best & good health to all,</div><div>Boris<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 13:34, Su <<a href="mailto:su@generis.name">su@generis.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Minimal info at the moment but something to bookmark, maybe.<br>
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Harald Peter Ström recently announced a year-long inquiry into<br>
preserving digital design starting this September:<br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/haraldpeter/status/1257289514223099905" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/haraldpeter/status/1257289514223099905</a><br>
<a href="http://words.dance/notes/preservingdesign" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://words.dance/notes/preservingdesign</a><br>
<br>
Google Translate did a pretty readable job with the Swedish press<br>
release at the bottom of the second link.<br>
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