The thing is, we can do better, it is not a technological problem as during the analogue/paper age with chemical degradation, it is a societal and legal issue.
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schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Yeah, just like most material that was ever printed or carved into a clay tablet. It’s the way of things.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
It’s a technological and a physical issue. We just can’t store every bit of information plus a picture of everyone’s cat. We can’t guarantee that no information ever gets lost. We’ve also not really stored and archived every shopping list, advertising, pamphlet, silly poem, ugly drawing etc. since the time of the printing press and that’s okay.
It might be a good idea to store and archive some written material as time passes but we want to be a bit picky about what we store. That said, I wouldn’t mind to find more shopping lists and less posh documents in museums.
bilb@lem.monster 1 month ago
There is no practical reason to “do better.” It’s fine.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The difference is that most of that content lasted for at least a few decades, if not centuries before being lost to time. As content on the internet is ‘destroyed’ if no one hosts it any more, a lot of valuable content is being lost in just a few years after being created. Archiving needs to be more widespread and better supported if the resources and culture of the internet as it has evolved over time are to be preserved for posterity.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Some government should finally grow the balls to reform copyright, it’s insane that basically the whole world uses this broken system that, among other things, makes archiving illegal