I was curious, so I visited DTI Data's web site. I found the following "whitepaper":
HOW TO CHOOSE A DATA RECOVERY COMPANY AND THE DECLINE OF STANDARDS WITHIN THE DATA RECOVERY COMMUNITY (2006):
http://web.archive.org/web/200611030447 ... choice.pdfhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... choice.pdfQuote:
The truth is there are about 5 to 10 real data recovery companies in the United States [in 2006].
Presumably these would be ...
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Is there a solution? Amongst creditable data recovery companies there has been a call for credentials. We at dtidata.com endorse this call and hope to help establish any type of agency to provide minimum standards necessary to become part of an endorsed community.
I checked the Wayback Machine. Apparently DTI Data goes back at least as far as 1999:
http://web.archive.org/web/200002291046 ... idata.com/Apparently there were many facets to their original business model:
Free Email
Dating
Shopping
Motor Clubs
Travel
Business Opportunities
Web Page Design
Sports
http://web.archive.org/web/200002291412 ... artner=AOWQuote:
It's been over a year now, but after nearly 14 years of waiting, I am linked, body and soul, to my partner for life!
I was eager to see what they had in their "Downloads" link ...
http://web.archive.org/web/200002291046 ... ducts.html... but the Wayback Machine didn't know what to make of it:
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Eh? Sorry, that doesn't look like an valid URL.