It may be helpful. Consider online backups for your important digital documents

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(09-10-2019 12:04 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(09-10-2019 11:45 AM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  And the vast majority of floppies, too...

The information on them lives on, though. The contents of the hundreds of floppies I once owned migrated to a handful of zip discs, then to an even smaller number of CD-R discs, and currently live on a couple of USB hard drives, with the really important stuff also backed up at another site.

Digital information is easy to lose, but it can be preserved. It takes some care, but that's true for all types of information carrier.

Ditto here, with the exception that I used Jaz discs rather than Zips.

However also books were duplicated, since dark ages, via scribes and amanuensis.
But, of course, you're right: digital info is so ridicoulosly easy and cheap to duplicate and transfer!