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Does it matter though? Did we really need to archive everything ever created forever? People made such a big deal out of things like geocities being shut down,
by Gigachad 3y ago
Does it matter though? Did we really need to archive everything ever created forever? People made such a big deal out of things like geocities being shut down, but does anyone actually ever look through what was archived?
Sure, saving some of it is useful so we can look back and reflect. But we don’t need all of it. It’s mostly junk.
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- ghaff 3y agoI mostly favor what archivists and preservationists do. But I don't really disagree. Some things are important (and you may not know what ahead of time). But there's nearly an infinite amount of paper with black characters on it. A nearly infinite number of photos. How much video of conference presentations do people watch a month after the fact? A day? Some stuff is interesting to preserve. I scanned a Year in Life of Development book from a long-ago company and it's a neat look into mid-1980s computer development. But you can't save everything and you probably just need to let go sometimes.