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.