Ancient information storage methods:
(1) knotting notes, stone substitution method, painted on the cave rock wall. Then came China: bamboo slips, wooden slips, metal container surfaces, silks, silks, and Cai Lun papermaking. With this carrier, we can borrow things to keep a record, and we can also borrow things to keep a record, that is, change things to be recorded into things that are easier to carry, but the ancient "things" are all real things.
(2) At that time, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was used to record words and store information on animal shells, which was relatively advanced. Later, Cai Lun invented papermaking, and people began to record words on paper to store information.
In modern times, it is recorded on paper in the form of writing and printing. After the invention of photography technology, picture information can be recorded. Modern, mainly printing and data hard disk or cloud service storage.
Extended data:
storage medium
paper
Advantages: large stock, small volume, low price, good permanent preservation, and difficult to alter. It is as easy to store numbers, words and images.
Disadvantages: slow information transmission and inconvenient retrieval.
film
Advantages: High storage density. Easy to query
Disadvantages: it is inconvenient to read through the interface device and the cost is high.
computer
Advantages: extremely fast access speed and large amount of stored data.
Information storage should determine what information is suitable for what media series. Generally speaking, voucher files should be stored in paper media; Business documents are stored on paper or tape; And master files, such as enterprise structure in an enterprise; Personnel files; Inventory accounts of equipment or materials should be stored on disk for online retrieval and inquiry.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia _ Information Storage