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This will be remembered as a dark age of humanity. Anything built or released in the early 21st century will simply become meaningless bytes to future generatio
by paledot 6y ago
This will be remembered as a dark age of humanity. Anything built or released in the early 21st century will simply become meaningless bytes to future generations.
- mikeyouse 6y agoI had this thought when watching a cold-case show awhile back. The detectives had dug out the original cassette tapes which helped "crack the case" - what are modern police departments doing? Hopefully this stuff isn't just in the cloud somewhere waiting to get lost? In 20 years will we have any ability whatsoever to recreate everything from today?
- manquer 6y agoLegally perhaps, most of these earlier software had plenty of cracks to bypass the early copy protection they used.
- xtracto 6y agoJust think about the 1990s internet. Geocities is gone, xoom is gone Yahoo pages is gone. There's already a hole of all of the content that existed the. Sure for some people it might just be senseless 13 year olds' pages, but it is a big chunk of history right there.