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I get it--as it gets impossible to find out who came up with what, content creators are an indirect casualty but historians are a direct one because that's thei
by lg 17y ago
I get it--as it gets impossible to find out who came up with what, content creators are an indirect casualty but historians are a direct one because that's their actual job! That's sort of funny. I guess they'll have to use fancy statistical analysis like everyone else now.
- silentbicycle 17y agoWell, historians work with primary and secondary sources. The internet collectively hoards and archives insane amounts of information, so it's a lot to dig through, but sources are often still there somewhere, and they are often copied verbatim. A big part of history has always been gathering and interpreting sources, to figure out the validity of assertions like that (whether contemporary or retroactive). Hearsay and speculation are nothing new. As the article notes, history isn't about reciting names and dates, it's about making a case to support or refute an interpretation of what happened, based on available evidence.