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Adsos Letter

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2. "...the technical challenges of making such a massive archive available to researchers."

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Sat Jan 5, 2013, 01:36 AM

Jan 2013

One of the hurdles future historians will have to address; not a dearth of documentation, but an excess. Determining the significant will be a challenge, I would think.

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Everything you've ever tweeted: The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 Billion Tweets [View all] Mrs. Overall Jan 2013 OP

Now your inane bullshit can live forever, in the LoC Scootaloo Jan 2013 #1

"...the technical challenges of making such a massive archive available to researchers." Adsos Letter Jan 2013 #2

Yes! geomon666 Jan 2013 #3

Genealogy 100 years from now will be interesting. nt Comrade_McKenzie Jan 2013 #4

Finally! Jamastiene Jan 2013 #5

Very interesting intaglio Jan 2013 #6

kick for morning. Mrs. Overall Jan 2013 #7

why. i can understand keeping interesting stuff but most of it is inane loli phabay Jan 2013 #8

The Library of Congress HappyMe Jan 2013 #9

Cross-referenced, linked, and all tied back to Honey Boo Boo... Buns_of_Fire Jan 2013 #12

Unfortunately true. HappyMe Jan 2013 #13

I have never tweeted. In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #10

As the technical hurdles to storing information melt away, expect more of this. Robb Jan 2013 #11