You may be interested in this 2016 talk about oral history in software engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

You may be interested in this 2016 talk about oral history in software engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw To oversimplify: we should write more interesting and historical comments in our codebases, write more blog posts and give more talks, and share more links to blog posts and talks other people have created.