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The Hard Disk as the new Paper ArchiveOpportunities and challenges for historical
research into the Information Age
James Baker, Lecturer in Digital History@j_w_baker
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The imaginary construction of organizations as like a machine was prior to "real" mechanization - prior to but not proceeding, since systematic management enabled technological change, and, vice versa, technological change reinforced the position of systematic managementJon Agar, The Government Machine (2003), 144.
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The Old Bailey Online can rightfully describe their 197,000 trials as the “largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published” between 1674 and 1913. But GeoCities, drawing on the material we have between 1996 and 2009, has over thirty-eight million pages.Ian Milligan, 'Herrenhausen Big Data Lightning Talk: Finding Community in the Ruins of GeoCities', 25 March 2015
[Yahoo!] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourseDan Fletcher, 'Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History', TIME Magazine, 9 March 2009
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The Hard Disk as the new Paper ArchiveOpportunities and challenges for historical
research into the Information Age
James Baker, Lecturer in Digital History@j_w_baker
slideshare.net/drjwbaker
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