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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had emails back then from both home and work (and BBS rimemail and fido) all burned to CD's for archival. Found them 10 years ago in storage, none were still readable. :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Aww. That's disappointing. cd-rw really don't have the best shelf life unfortunately.