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You're using a web app now. Is this bad for the long term preservation of knowledge? Sure. But it's the world we made.
by samlevine 7y ago
You're using a web app now.
Is this bad for the long term preservation of knowledge? Sure. But it's the world we made.
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- schwartzworld 7y agoHow are webapps worse for the preservation if knowledge than native apps? I can't open most of the apps I used on a daily basis 10 years ago.
- samlevine 7y agoFor reasonably complex documents PDF/A is a pretty good choice for long-term archival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A That said, the comparison I was trying to make was the pre webapp web to the current web. We have AOL today, just not one big company running it. It will mostly be lost because it's not legal to save it. The future will know us through scraped videos from Youtube before it was taken down suddenly and without warning in the mid 21st century due to corporate politics and/or the takeover of the government in DC by descendants of the house of Habsburg.