Indeed, software archeology already is and will become a very exciting discipline. And the stakes are quite high, at least for science. Here is a great example

Indeed, software archeology already is and will become a very exciting discipline. And the stakes are quite high, at least for science. Here is a great example of how NASA almost lost precious data from Viking missions back in the 1970s (the article is from 1990, so history in history format): https://web.archive.org/web/20220121041452/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/20/science/lost-on-earth-wealth-of-data-found-in-space.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220121041452/https://www.nytim...