There’s already “digital dark ages” and it’s a reason archive.org and retro tech collection is so important. From the 70s-90s most consumer tech was thrown in

There’s already “digital dark ages” and it’s a reason archive.org and retro tech collection is so important. From the 70s-90s most consumer tech was thrown in land fill when people were finished with it. There wasn’t yet much of a “collector” mentality because it wasn’t old enough to be cool, and there was such a mad rush to always have the newest developments in that tech-honeymoon period that people threw the old stuff out. Then for the software side, storage was expensive and complicated. People didn’t keep copies of every single old thing like lots of people do now, websites were purged of old content to fit new content, versioning in development didn’t really exist (on a large scale). I’m a retro tech/software collector and there’s plenty of stuff from my childhood that I can’t find a single trace of anymore.