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Digital Domesday Book fails

Wednesday 20 March 2002
It was meant to be a showcase for Britain’s electronic prowess​—​a computer-based, multimedia version of the Domesday Book. But 16 years after it was created, the £2.5 million BBC Domesday Project has achieved an unexpected and unwelcome status: it is now unreadable. From an article in The Observer.
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