 thumb|using the community disc of the bbc domesday project (photo credit: [http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/ beebmaster])|1986 domesday book running on its original hardware the bbc domesday project was a partnership between acorn computers, philips, logica and the bbc (with some funding from the european commission's esprit programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original domesday book, an 11th-century census of england. it is frequently cited as an example of digital obsolescence on account of the physical medium used for data storage. this new multimedia edition of domesday was compiled between 1984 and 1986 and published in 1986. it included a new "survey" of the united kingdom, in which people, mostly school children, wrote about geography, history or social issues in their local area or just about their daily lives. children from over 9,000 schools were involved. {{cite news | first = john | last = lamb | title = programming the first generation | date = 1985-03-28 | publisher = ipc magazines | work = new scientist | 
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