Soon he was also archiving his personal life, scanning in old photos and copying music CDs.

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During the next decade, the Net will subsume all that tickles the eardrum in your old Betsy: radios, tapes, CDs and phone services .

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Inside the bag was a pair of gym shorts, an old T-shirt, a couple CDs (yes, I still have them), my car keys and, oh yeah, my laptop.

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CDs still need to be delivered physically in the old-fashioned way.

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But anything more than that and we'd be back to doing things the, uh, old-fashioned way (and we don't mean buying CDs in stores).

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Owners can take their old analog VCR and camcorder tapes and convert them into digital files, edit them and put them on CDs.

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