• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    [off topic]

    The Deep Throat secret lasted about 30 years and had about a dozen people involved.

    So I’m supposed to believe that no one in the Mafia, the CIA, the KGB, the Dallas Police Department, the Secret Service, or any one at the hospitals left a letter “to be opened after my death?”

  • Bob Robertson IX
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    15 days ago

    Way back in the 1990s (it was 1998 to be exact), I was working for a local ISP and the local library had contracted with us to have us scan in their old newspaper clippings. Any time someone appeared in the newspaper that article would get clipped out and it would be put into a folder with that person’s name on it. I was shocked to find that they even had a folder for me, and it included an article for when I visited the planetarium with my Cub Scout den, and an article for when I competed in a track event.

    Anyway, the process of scanning those articles was tedious, especially when the article was longer than the scanner bed. We had to color correct the scan, sometimes piece them together, adjusting the perspective, and almost every article was folded, so sometimes we had to do some extensive work to remove those creases.

    And I was a young 20 year old kid working for a local small city library. I can only imagine the efforts that the National Archives put into their scans.