I would argue that all timeline-based communication tools are black holes for information. How much knowledge has been lost to IRC channels, chat conversations

I would argue that all timeline-based communication tools are black holes for information. How much knowledge has been lost to IRC channels, chat conversations, forum threads, and so-on? Yes, many of us have gotten good (or even excellent) at parsing through threads to find the nuggets of information that lead us to the understanding we seek, but it’s clearly not the environment that information wants in order to thrive.