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how to find the oldest (=original) file on the Internet?

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nosh:
Have you tried Google's reverse image search? It lets you enter a custom date range so you can manually work your way backwards.



Except...
I don't see how you could ever identify the "oldest" version file of a digital image.
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Renegade:
Seems like no one really read Curt's post.
-PhilB66 (March 26, 2012, 12:04 AM)
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I don't think it can be answered. You can modify the date and time on a file, so there's really no such thing as an audit trail for a file.

IainB:
...I don't think it can be answered. You can modify the date and time on a file, so there's really no such thing as an audit trail for a file.
-Renegade (March 26, 2012, 05:22 AM)
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If the file had been input to the 'net a long time ago, then it might have been done in a batch process, as opposed to on an ad hoc basis. In the old days of batch processing, there was usually a rigorous batch control record kept for all batch input data, with things like input document counts, data types, hash totals of any numeric (e.g., $ money) fields manually input (via data entry).
So the batch control record for an image capture/input process could conceivably provide a decent audit trail.

You'd not be so likely to find things like that nowadays though, unless (say) it was Banking or Government/Defence data capture/input.

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