I have a ton of old obsolete random CD-ROMs 'round here from the past four decades or so
everything from random magazine disks to obsolete local computer programs to phone books from 1994 to obscure video games
Most of them I can't find online. Would it be worth it to rip and preserve them somehow or somewhere, and if so, how is the best way to do it? Are there any real legal risks I'd take with this?
#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #preservation #dataPreservation #archiving #webarchive
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2026-08-18 15:07:48 UTC
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