Nearly everything I remember as a cultural artifact from the 80s and 90s is gone, except for movies and video games, both of which have been preserved only due

Nearly everything I remember as a cultural artifact from the 80s and 90s is gone, except for movies and video games, both of which have been preserved only due to illegal copyright infringement. Nearly every aspect of my online presence and the people who influenced my formative years, things like the local dial-in BBS, some of the Usenet groups, and the many MUDs are all gone, poof, vanished. I imagine more of human culture has been lost than preserved at nearly every point in history, but as with other commenters, I expect online culture in particular will be lost to memory due to the folly of US copyright law, the US global hegemony (primarily focused on enforcing said laws), and the US being a lynchpin to the early Internet.