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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social |
2002: kinda creepy that everything we put on the internet is there forever 2024: i wish i could read anything I wrote before 2015 3024: we call the period from 1900-2100 “the dark ages” as paper had acid in it and later they trusted their writing to something called a cloud. Very little is known.
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Nathaniel Downes
@downix.bsky.social
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The new Bronze Age collapse
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@eric-the-viking.bsky.social
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I’m going to stop using email and do all my correspondence by clay tablet now. “Amazon, I’d like to complain about the copper I bought from THORBQ. 1 star.”
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Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social
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I thought they called 1900-2100 the Dark Ages becauase it was a period of ignorance and depravity?
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rifka the unhinged fat activist
@rifka.bsky.social
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@tps12.bsky.social
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Having any kind of records from the past is kind of the exception though: "ancient" Greece and Egypt is only hundreds of generations ago, we have basically nothing from like 99% of human existence
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Maggie K
@maggiekpaints.bsky.social
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I would like to never read anything I wrote before 2015.
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Pyke Redrock
@pykeredrock.bsky.social
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Futurama constantly getting facts about the 20th century wrong makes a lot more canonical sense.
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‘stina is a shiny special one
@stinapag.bsky.social
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Otoh, I was recently on a password changing spree and half the sites don’t exist anymore.
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🌸Abbey🌸
@abbeyarletto.bsky.social
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I've been bookmarking political articles since Dubya was president. Most articles older than 6 years are gone.
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Barry Gott
@bazgott.bsky.social
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Bring back clay tablets and inferior copper
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The Bland Wazoo
@zombieboof.bsky.social
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I'm actually quite glad I'll never see the cringey bullshit I wrote in middle school again.
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Jason D. Salvagni
@trisalvagni.bsky.social
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I deal with digital decay every day at my firm, and have been since 2005ish.
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@saschavykos.bsky.social
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Someone needs to write down an explanation of the internet on a stone tablet and leave it somewhere very obvious where it won't sink into the sea. Add a dad joke at the end just they can understand exactly how dumb we all are.
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Jon Arnesen
@jonarnesen.bsky.social
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Not after the next cataclysm
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@retiredrph.bsky.social
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Actually this is a good thing, if you think about the energy generated/used to store all that stuff. Server farms use so much water too! I am reaming out lots of old stuff from computer and ask myself “why did I save this” a lot. Very valuable stuff could go to external drive and keep a hard copy.
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Mr. Morbid
@mrmorbid.bsky.social
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That sentence sounds too on the nose.
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TT
@silenttt.bsky.social
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We are blessed to be forgotten.
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Derrell Durrett
@derrelldurrett.bsky.social
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On the plus side, if there are archeologists looking back to 2100, there's a decent bet we survived this period better than we have a right to do.
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Rowan
@theharvestmaid.bsky.social
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I've been saying (some variation of) this for a while. Some real Dark Ages shit.
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Alex Ross
@wergend.bsky.social
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And one big EMP could wipe the lot. I'm philosophical about how bad that would be.
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Nessa Carson
@supersciencegrl.co.uk
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Nooooo I just checked on my very Web 2.0, Pokémon-themed "webby" from when I was a teenager... it was there just a year or two ago... it's gone! 😭
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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This is why we need to print out the internet and bury it in the desert.
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Miley Crisis ✨
@boubayaga.bsky.social
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This is why I also write out all of my skeets and bury them in the park, I want my bangers to survive the ages
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Ryn
@reprapryn.bsky.social
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Even in accounting and important biz records, don't expect anything older than 7 years to be available in databases. Stuff to big. All this stuff is making me want to make backups and load them to M type blurays. I don't trust these corpos.
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Mela Eckenfels
@felicea.bsky.social
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Craig
@craiging619.bsky.social
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Before LiveJournal my first blogs went on a Microsoft thing that was tied into Hotmail accounts (Spaces? Free Spaces? Can’t even remember.) I went back during lockdown to try and find them. All gone. The whole thing was completely dismantled. Don’t remember being asked / told about it. Erm, thanks!
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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
@bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social
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this is why I buried a time capsule with printouts of every dril tweet
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UPCCODE
@upccode.bsky.social
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Honestly? I think it’s good that it’s being proven the internet won’t last forever.
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Tired Art Goblin
@spaceturtleart.bsky.social
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So there is a series called Earth Girl where this in fact happened -- humanity moved off-planet so quickly that the server archives were left behind and degraded without care, so now archeologists have to go digging in Earth's ruins in order to find any records they can. They lost 700 yrs of history
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HInerle
@hinerle.bsky.social
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Hammer a stone to keep messages for ages. Works since ages.
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Cindy McCrackan 🧜♀️
@cindym.bsky.social
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Entirely plausible.
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STCmicrobeblog
@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
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just sayin...
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Candid Yams
@rvaporkchop.bsky.social
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All that will remain are hand bound fanfics
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Phoebe Barton 🚀 🇺🇳
@phoebebarton.bsky.social
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realization: it would be super interesting if future generations knew more about and of us through our music than anything else due to the endurance of vinyl records
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stuckatthisbit
@stuckatthisbit.bsky.social
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The Wayback Machine must be protected at all costs
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Luke
@luke-minded.bsky.social
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I watched a thing on this at one point that looked at the longevity of different data storage media and it concluded that after a cataclysm a visiting alien race who arrived as soon as 200 years later would end up getting their most useful data from stone tablets
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Emil
@emilgson.bsky.social
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I stared out thinking that sci fi like 40k and the like using paper was so dumb and corny but as tech aha trudged along I kinda see it more and more as an inevitable future.
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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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I keep writing and failing to sell Science Fiction short stories based on this premise. It’s like people don’t want to read extremely nerdy future historians discussing periodization of our era. Weird.
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shademar
@shademar.bsky.social
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At least they won't be trying to reconstruct what our society looked like using the recursively hallucinated LLM content that inevitably overwhelms the internet I guess.
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Lesley A Hall
@erinacean.bsky.social
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Sighing in archivist. Problems archivists have been dealing with even before the internet, whenever some shiny, shiny new media or technology comes along. Accelerated by the internet. 'Oh, are you going to digitise everything, For Posterity?' No. For access, yes, for posterity, hahahaha.
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Elijah Davis
@speck.bsky.social
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Wait paper has acid in it? Are my journals just gonna degrade by the time in 80?
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onisillos
@onisillos.bsky.social
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
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The financial system is also at risk of being lost to the cloud
bsky.app/profile/hype...
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John Quiggin
@johnquiggin.bsky.social
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My experience is the exact opposite of all this. I bought a 128K Mac in 1984. On reading this, I checked and it took me two minutes to retrieve work I did that year. Before that, everything I still retain on paper fits in a big manila folder.
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B. Coul
@briancoulombe.bsky.social
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Whoever coined to the phrase “the Internet is forever“ must feel like a massive idiot right now.
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Al
@notheworddash.bsky.social
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I framed pictures when I was a kid and got a weird appreciation for how fast the sun and cheap materials can destroy artwork and documents
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polishedrelish 🇵🇸
@polishedrelish.bsky.social
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Every time I see people echo the "once it's online, you can't delete it!!1!" crap I see red
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Doctor The Frog
@skipbidder.bsky.social
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Almost nothing that I wrote/presented for academic purposes is still available. That's hitting weirdly hard.
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TextilianOverlord
@textilianoverlord.bsky.social
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I worked in a microfilm lab briefly in the 00s, sadly everything is digitized now at this facility and the lab was shut down. Microfilm has a better chance of surviving and being accessible compared to paper or many digital formats or storage devices/clouds… oh well.
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radical lisa loebotomy
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this is why i had my entire twitter archive etched onto a series of tungsten plates
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Elsie Yorks
@elsieyork.bsky.social
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Yeah. Tried using archives from WW2 era when paper shortages meant even official documents are on flimsy sheets, that were literally disintegrating even 20 years ago. Who knows what condition they are in now!
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Dave 🏳️🌈
@agrajag.spaceships.gay
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Well, at least I have my Geocities pag.. what?
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Charles King
@cfk1.bsky.social
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Thinking it's more likely to be 2124... Expect you already know about the Domesday Book storage media fiasco: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Dom...
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felonious squid
@iron-squid.bsky.social
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that basic premise is actually a huge lore thing in the Cyberpunk series If you played 2077- when you go into cyberspace, the Blackwall basically exists to isolate the 90+% of corrupted data that was lost in the 2020s so they can use digital space again without it corrupting the new web pages
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