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I think it's good that data is lost . Only items where someone gives enough of a duck to save it should be preserved. It's not as if physical paper content, wh
by darepublic 7y ago
I think it's good that data is lost . Only items where someone gives enough of a duck to save it should be preserved. It's not as if physical paper content, which ends up recycled or in a landfill 99.999 of the time is any different. It's true that digital formats change but fighting that is the cost of preservation. A museum of software needs to also preserve the context on which software was run in order to save it from the mists of time, albeit temporarily.
- jplayer01 7y agoI feel like you've never had to look for information or how to do something, and the only decent source is entirely gone or consists mostly of pictures, which are also mostly gone. Maybe somewhere at some point in time somebody saved it, but that copy gets lost and never makes it's way online again so you can find it. A lot of information is being lost in this way and I'm not sure why we should be fine with that.