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Author: neau <neau@web>
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+In 1986, the BBC launched an ambitious project to record a snapshot of life across the UK for future generations, but 16 years after it was created, the £2.5 million BBC Domesday Project was unreadable. The special computers developed to play the 12" video discs of text, photographs, maps and archive footage of British life had become obsolete.
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+It has been cited as an example of [[digital obsolescence]] on account of the physical medium used for data storage.