Bill Drew writes “NPR has done it again with their annual April Fools Day joke. This one is really well done and fooled me until almost the end of it.
“Apr. 1, 2003 — For several years now, historical preservationists have been stepping up efforts to transfer millions of hours of precious, perishable sound recordings to a single, stable format. Sound archive experts at the Library of Congress are worried that time is running out.
So for the past two years, technicians have been fighting time and technology to save America’s audio heritage. NPR’s Rick Karr reports on the effort to transfer the sound from all tapes, CDs, LPs, eight-track tapes and other audio materials onto a single, easy-to-access format that is absolutely stable. Even more importantly, the format needs to be reliably re-created and understood by civilizations 50, 100 or even 1,000 years from now.”
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