Author Topic: Dressing up little brother (Read 13771 times)

andyg0404 · « **on:** June 03, 2015, 05:56:02 PM »

Hi,

Came across these two earlier today.

You have to click on the second thumbnail in the first link.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55286315-78/sisters-brother-talk-cannon.html.csp

http://churchlovescaboose.tumblr.com/post/120547527078/yowgert-meet-my-little-brother-jamie-hes-8

Andy G.

Betty · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2015, 10:22:47 PM »

These kids, & their siblings or parents taking these pix to post on the internet, don't really realize they'll still be circulating around 20 years from now. Damn, we're still looking at pix taken 50 to over 100 years ago long before the internet.

andyg0404 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 04, 2015, 06:02:18 PM »

Hi Betty,

Yes, the Internet is forever which in some ways is good but in other ways very bad. Once misinformation or outright lies are posted they attain legitimacy through time. People Google something and find an answer and assume it's correct which is a very bad assumption. A friend of mine quoted Churchill in an email and I remembered the quotation differently so I Googled it. I found my version and was about to correct my friend when I Googled her version and found that as well, and other versions. It's very much like the old canard "it must be true I read it in the newspaper." It wasn't true then and it's not true now. We always have to consider the source.

Andy G.

Betty · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2015, 08:47:43 PM »

I'm still seeing internet hoaxes spread around in the 1990s circulating as the truth to a new generation on Facebook. Or they "share" faked stories believing they were true.

Werewolves & vampires were fictional to entertain people with scary stories. But with today's modern movies with convincing special effects, a startling percentage of the population now think they're real.

Every generation seems to re-write or make up their history to their tastes. Our ancestors used to write history & other important stuff in stone because it was more permanent.

Now even most classrooms have gone digital. I wonder how much of our modern times will be accurately documented a few hundred years from now as information is lost during chip failures, hard drives dieing, or data formats becoming old, obsolete, & unreadable anymore. People will re-write history to anything they believe rather than on facts. These days people could write anything & get it spread around.

I'm already finding disks written in Nero's popular version of UDF format, & "drag to disk" UDF formats from the 1990s up until a little over a decade ago are no longer readable by any modern computers. UDF still exists, but not the popular version of it that was used by most burning & archiving software back them. I find it odd that the most popular digital archiving format for over 20 years has suddenly become inaccessible to anyone.

Nothing exists anymore to read old data tapes, pre-90s hard drives, & floppy disks. The original Apollo moon mission data & video was lost just 10 years after the last moon landing. Even the few lost Apollo Moon mission data tapes that have be re-discovered, sit around useless because nobody has anything to play them on. Sadly, nobody even knows what kind of machine to build to read them because nobody seems to have any idea of what machine, format & encryption was used to record them anymore.

Think about it. Less than 10 years after YCDTOTV aired, only a few poor quality beat up VHS home video tape existed of it because the official holders of the material lost or destroyed all evidence of them.

How much of this is happening to our modern history too?

Betty · « **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2015, 09:26:04 PM »

Sites & tumblr accounts come & go. So for archiving purposes, I'll repost the pix in a more web-manageable size. Stuff put up at Betty's is more likely to be saved & archived by others than at most other sites.