Tape Has Come Back From the Dead (It Was Never Dead)
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Every few years someone declares tape dead. Earlier this year it was DOGE staffers reportedly mocking the Library of Congress for still using tape. Before that it was the cloud. Before that it was cheap spinning disk. Tape has been "dying" for roughly thirty years now. It isn't dying. The numbers say the opposite, and the reason most people miss this is that they're still picturing tape the way it worked in 2005: write a reel, label it by hand, put it on a shelf, forget what's on it. That workf