Wipe out everything that is old (including people) and to be on the "cuttingĮdge" of "scholarly entrepreneurship". History the corporate management that arrived in 2005 spares no effort to When I was laid off from Columbia they let me keep the desk (which I hadīeen sitting at since 1974) because Columbia has absolutely zero interest in The story in the 1939-45 section of my Columbia University Computing Hall), founded in 1945 by IBM and the War Department to do the finalĬomputations for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory atĬolumbia University (originally located in the Physics building, Pupin I don't know whose desk it was,īut it was at the Thomas J. I write this, by the way, at my big grey Steelcase desk that was originallyĪt the Manhattan Project at Columbia, and still has the original Physicsĭepartment property plate from the 1940s. Writing programs to do that too for example, extracting chapters. Images and links, etc, but mainly reorganizing and consolidating, and Text to HTML and now I'm editing the HTML version directly, adding
This is the new improved version begun in 2017. Stuff ever since to the point it was pretty disorganized and repetitious. I started his around 2000 as a big plain-text file and had been adding The same thing could happen to you guys, I thought I'd write some things Things and had questions only they could answer, but it was too late. Of them can (and eventually will) stop working.Īfter my father and mother died I started to wonder about all kinds of Offsite links to a minimum, but there are still quite a few. Longevity but, again, there can be no guarantees. In short, this work is designed for maximum portability and
There is no Javascript anywhere except in theįamily tree. Galleries, linked to from this page, that are stored in the same directory There are also some external pages such as photo Each one can be clicked on to see a nonscaled (usually Portuguese, Arabic, and Russian) to be mixed in the same document.Īre in JPG format and are all local and in the same directory ("folder") Of 16 October 2019 the character encoding is Unicode UTF-8, the universalĬharacter set, to allow text in all languages (such as German, Norwegian, This is straightforward HTML5, a matureĪnd stable standard that should last for some time, but no guarantees. Which, in case Web browsers cease to exist, consists mainly of plain-text
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Stylesheets or software only a web browser. Is completely self-contained, not relying on any external libraries or This document is written by hand using no "authoring tools" whatsoever and Newer generations are increasingly nomadic, shedding all belongings as Now everything is digital and ephemeral and the They wrote letters to each other and kept them. Pictures - snapshots that were printed on paper and often mounted inįamily albums. The reason I can do it is that until aboutġ995 (ubiquitous Internet, email, cell phones, digital cameras), people took It occurs to me that mine is the last generation that will be able toĬompile a history like this. Larger versions or expanded info, something that is not possible in a book. Hyperlinks that you can follow, and where you can click on images to see This, however, is still a digital edition with To have it printed because no digital media or encoding or markup language
If you click on them, bring up bigger copies of themselves that can be widerĪnyway, for this document to survive for many generations I'll probably have Nevertheless, wider screens are better because some images, Smart-watch screens (or 12-foot wide TVs) are an improvement over the The optimum size for reading matter was settledĬenturies ago - there's no reason to think cell-phone or "phablet" or Wider screens because then the lines would be too long to read. It canĪlso be viewed on smaller screens, cell phones even, but although the layout The history is best viewed on a screen at least 740 pixels wide. Here is an index to the online material, which also includes an explanation The family history is online so family members can see it help with it. When the Family Echo tree has stablized, I will see if I can also put a copy Include a plain-text "dump" of the tree in GEDCOM Themseles, will eventually become obsolete, like 8-inch floppy disks.īut whatever digital form this history is distributed in, it will also Memory card or DVD, the formats and encodings (HTML5, UTF-8), and the media If I distribute this history on some kind of removeable media like The public read-only version is stored in my Note to posterity: The online tree referenced just above was built at
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