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History has become self-documenting
- sparkie 6y agoEarly digitization will be looked back in history as an information dark age. I can't even access a website from 10 years ago, unless the sole archivist, The Internet Archive, has an old copy of it saved. Digital information doesn't survive long. Compact discs have bit rot. Hard disks and SSDs have limited lifetimes. People only store what matters to them - they aren't concerned with archiving history. Where people have archives lying around, I bet they've not checked them in years and the data is no longer recoverable. Archiving requires maintenance, and is costly. TIA relies on voluntary donations.