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I had this discussion with my partner while hiking last weekend! Our consensus was that the persistence of digital information is extremely fragile compared to
by dgb23 6y ago
I had this discussion with my partner while hiking last weekend!
Our consensus was that the persistence of digital information is extremely fragile compared to physical media and oral tradition.
This is kind of scary. Our biological niche is very much dependent on culture and passing on information.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoFor the web as a medium it would be especially tragic since SGML (on what HTML is based) is explicitly designed for long-term archival of digital text and other media (gave a tutorial about preserving HTML sites using SGML just last year [1]). [1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgml-html-tutorial.html http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgml-html-tutorial.html