As a follow up on this website's name. What does "web dark age" mean to HN people? I've seen political comments but no consensus yet. For a long time I have th

As a follow up on this website's name. What does "web dark age" mean to HN people? I've seen political comments but no consensus yet. For a long time I have thought of it as a period where all our data was stored in decaying media that would be lost to future historians, much like the real dark ages. My source for this idea comes from sci-fi author Charles Stross: >In the future, the 20th century will be seen as a dark age — while previous centuries left books and papers that are stable for centuries with proper storage, many of the early analog recordings were stable enough to survive for decades, but the digital media and magnetic tapes and optical disks of the latter third of the 20th century decay in mere years. And if they don't decay, they become unreadable: the original tapes of the slow-scan video from the first moon landing, for example, appear to be missing, and the much lower quality broadcast images are all that remain. So stability is important, and I'm not even going to start on how we store data and metainformation describing it. From here: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping-the-future.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping...