May, 1999
Old email never dies...
This story was about the way that people's email can live on long after they've moved on... The first paragraph:
It's almost impossible to hide your email from John Jessen. To him, the word delete is an invitation. Jessen can restore email from magnetic tapes that have been overwritten several times, resuscitating information off "deleted" files. He can read email and documents from obsolete computer systems. Jessen can capture phantoms; he understands the foibles of wordprocessing programs that leave undo lists and backups of old edits in hidden parts of files and disks.
"You see everything," he says, "from high and low comedy to human tragedy."
Click here to read the rest of the story at Wired.com.
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