History
Disk images were originally used for backup and disk cloning of floppy disk media, where replication or storage of an exact structure was necessary and efficient.
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“There is no example in history of a revolutionary movement involving such gigantic masses being so bloodless.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
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—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)