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Most of the knowledge from back then is also lost. It wasn’t written down or if it was, most of that was lost.
by jacobush 8y ago
Most of the knowledge from back then is also lost. It wasn’t written down or if it was, most of that was lost.
- pjmlp 8y agoTrue, but paper and clay/stone tablets happen to be more resistant than magnetic storage and continuous change of application specific formats.
- tialaramex 8y agoI presume that laughing at idiots who actually wrote this sort of thing without realising the irony will be one of the periodic amusements of next century. The only way to increase the information's chance to survive any significant length of time is copies. But making copies of digital artefacts is so trivial we made it totally routine, when did your backups last run? Whereas historically objects like tablets were only reproduced if there was extraordinary interest, so we have mostly Bibles, and random lists that survived entirely by chance due to just how many there were, often inventories or other boring records.
- pjmlp 8y agoWell there are plenty of surviving tablets with shopping lists. :)