Things we have lost – calendar history

A recent job application wanted start and stop dates for work I did over 20 years ago. I knew the years roughly, but not the months or days. Once I would have pulled out paper planners and paged through them. Once, if there was room in the attic, we had continuously accessible records.

I doubt even one geek in a million has an electronic calendar with a continuous record through the 90s. It’s been too hard to move historic data between systems. Perhaps someone who used a DOS based Microsoft calendaring project then migrated to Outlook.

There are some things we have lost.

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Google Drive: life without backups

Went looking for a Google Doc. After much search I found it in Google Drive trash. Accident. Reminded me how vulnerable my Google Docs are. No real backup. (I do use CloudPull, and found it also in that archive.)

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