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How many articles about jokes from 1913 have you read? Do you care? What makes you think future generations will care about yours?
by shpx 7y ago
How many articles about jokes from 1913 have you read?
Do you care? What makes you think future generations will care about yours?
- jcranmer 7y agoI could see it becoming something like "dancing plague"--an odd bit of trivia that won't come up except among people who are looking at early 21st century trivia facts.
- tenaciousDaniel 7y agoNone, but if I knew that my great great grandfather/grandmother made a joke in 1913, I'd want to read it. You forget that we'll likely be able to identify lineage if we manage to retain this data. In the future, there could be actual history classes where students have to trace their own family and read the words of their ancestors.
- jfk13 7y agoI can't imagine wanting to spend the time to trawl through inane trivia from generations of my ancestors. Just because there's a genetic link between me and my great-great-grandfather, it doesn't follow that he was an interesting person. We already have so much information about the past that we need historians to curate and organise it, and present us with the interesting and relevant fragments in a coherent fashion; otherwise, we're just drowning in data. It's only going to get worse.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoHow many articles from history journals have you read? I'm not saying this will be common, but someone will definitely look at it at some point. For my history degree I actually read a book on ridiculous medieval history - it was an example of history books done wrong (blended dates together, didn't look at historical context), but it's absolutely out there.
- coldtea 7y agoArticles/posts about old time stories and fads are widely read... And then there's history, which includes the study of 1913. And period movies and series and comics and so on...