Comment on We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?

Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not enough of the mundane has been preserved throughout human history, it continues to be a big problem for historians. Especially when they only have major - likely very coloured or outright lies - official records of events to go on.

  We’ve reached a point in our development where we now have the ability to preserve snapshots of our civilisation in great detail, with extreme ease. We owe it to ourselves and especially to future generations to do so.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That preservation comes at a cost though, both monetary and environmental, and the amount of data to preserve increases exponentially.

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There are really great WriteOnceReadOnlyAfterMemory solutions that hold mind blowing amounts of data without the need of being powered 😁 like glass and laser for example.

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    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This was an underlying plot point in Metal Gear Solid 2.

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• wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s a few things going on. At first blush, I agree with you. The vast majority of that stuff doesn’t need to be captured.

  But if you don’t capture everything, how do you know you got the stuff that will be important or wanted in the future?

  Also, historians are going to find that data to be an absolute gold mine. Unfortunately, a lot of it is in the form of video now and takes a ton of storage space.

  I think, in the end, most people are not willing to pay the price to archive everything. But some are, and they’re doing it.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where people have memory chips to allow them to relive everything they’ve ever lived.

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