Vatican digitizing archives

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Thatā€™s not all thatā€™s gettin ā€œdigitized,ā€ haw haw haw amirite?

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Some poor devil has to scan in thousands of handwritten documentsā€¦

I understand if this is too big a task to handle in-house, but thatā€™s just ridiculous.

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Its an amazing step. More and more of the original documents of our histories are getting digitized for all to view. There is a lot of stuff locked up because it is to fragile or valuable to be handled.

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Iā€™m just imagining the tech support call:

How do you get the scanner to work on what now? ā€¦
ā€˜Vellumā€™? ā€¦
I donā€™t know what that is. ā€¦
Oh, that is disgusting! No one wants to read your digitized Silence of the Lambs ravings, sicko!
[Hangs up.]

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It remains to be seen if the archives will be made available ā€œfor all to view.ā€

But it is an important first step.

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Even if they arenā€™t, then it just takes one person who disagrees to leak the info.

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And once it is made for public viewing 98% of it will be ignored because church minuta is terribly boring

Someone will be entertained by even the little things. Heck, someone will find evidence that thereā€™s aliens in the vatican vaults because of a very unlikely cypher.

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