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There are a lot of historical records that you'd never expect to have survived for so long in various archives. There are massive archives of historical brewin
by toomanybeersies 9y ago
There are a lot of historical records that you'd never expect to have survived for so long in various archives.
There are massive archives of historical brewing data from various breweries in the UK dating back to the 1800s, this guy has a blog all about old British beer: http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com
There are also parish records for births, deaths, and marriages going back centuries in the UK as well as taxation records for centuries.
People love keeping records of things.
If you want to have a look at what weird things we still have records of, have a look at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, it's a treasure trove of old data.
- ma2rten 9y agoI wonder if in 200 years, they going to have people's browsing and location data from now. If yes that would be an unprecedented amount of records for historians.
- pjmlp 9y agoGiven the way digital storage works, I guess it will be more like us looking at old Egiptian, Mayan, Romman, Greek artifacts while wondering what their purpose was.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoI don't think so myself tbf, it's not very informative information - unless maybe it's about someone important or influential. I'm sure most of my internet comments I've left behind over the past decade - tens of thousands of them on numerous websites - will hover around for years to come, but I doubt they'd have historical significance unless I become famous somehow. The writings of Aaron Schwarz became eternalised in a way since his death, they're frequently getting "resurrected" on HN for example.