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Hopefully in 30 years people will be able to read such seminal messages. Now that a lot of discussion is happening on proprietary platforms without a standard i
by specialp 13y ago
Hopefully in 30 years people will be able to read such seminal messages. Now that a lot of discussion is happening on proprietary platforms without a standard it may not be the case.
- rocky1138 13y agoI totally get what you're saying, and agree. But just in case: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
- mjn 13y agoIt's already the case with some stuff from the '90s: there was important stuff announced and discussed on CompuServe and AOL forums that has not been publicly archived. There are some personal archives out there, but they are pretty spotty. Often the only surviving (or at least accessible) record comes in the form of occasional quotes in other venues, like an academic paper from the 1990s that included a blockquote and a citation to a now-unreachable network address.