School me on baking tape?

Magnetic tape is still is one of the most stable and reliable long term storage mediums available today.

Yeah. Look at how the floppy, minidisc, dat, those small hard discs, ect. have fared.
Gone. And the devices to use them in are in landfills.
I just wonder where thumbdrive will be at in 5 to ten years. Maybe everything will be on a cloud where someone or an algorithm can turn off your data in a second.
Yeah, the temporary lifespans of modern storage devices makes me agree with Steve Albini's veiws more every day.
 
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