Some time ago, I was lamenting the disappearance of mini-cassettes, VHS tapes and even CDs. Today, I'm reporting the imminent death of the venerable file cabinet. Remember the days when we had lots of physical files, manila folders and the like to keep all of the information that we deemed useful to us.
Yesterday, I tried to give away, to no avail, these information dinosaurs to charity; they headed to the scrap metal bin instead. Well, in the 90s, all of that material has turned into PDFs and begun to sit in our disk drives, our company servers and our back-up hard-drives.
For a while, we liked to have our information in two places: inside the computer and inside our file cabinets, just like we liked to print everything, as we harbored suspicion towards computers.
Today, everything seems to be moving up to the “cloud.” Farewell large size file cabinets; another few years and you'll go the way rotary dial phones went not so long ago...
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