Can internet history be preserved? No one is printing shit out and putting it in a cave. How will archaeologists discover us in the future?
Archives.
Actually, the internet is even more preservable. Hard disks and electronics don't rot like paper does.
History post imternet is a very different proposition
>tfw you realize how young the internet really is
>tfw you realize it will be here forever
HOL UP, YOU BE SAYIN WE WUZ ANCIENTS N SHEEEEIT?
>>79295326
>No one is printing shit out and putting it in a cave
Speak for yourself, americlap
>>79295651
Bit rot, m8 old NES games are starting to fail, and modern machines are built to be disposable
>>79296100
Most NES games have been downloaded to roms and archived by retro gamers. Even if, just because the original reading technology can't read it doesn't mean technology 10,000 years from now can't.
A single fingerbone from Denisovan...
>>79295326
It wont. Allot of the original websites are gone.
Sure theres archives but eventually it gets to the point of hoarding, especially with everyone ricing their websites so much.
Anyone that says "harddrives" has never seen the electronic dumps in africa.
Its all going to disappear someday, just like the 4chan archives did, and the second 4chan archives too.
>>79295676
>mfw the pepe I created will be exposed in virtual museums
>mfw my memes will be studied by an archeologist
>>79295326
>implying there's a future
>>79295676
>it will be here forever
But it will never be as it was in the beginning ever again.
>>79295326
Who cares? None of this is worth SHIT. If it ain't print, it's nothing.
>>79295326
There will be no future.
>>79295326
>Can internet history be preserved? No one is printing shit out and putting it in a cave. How will archaeologists discover us in the future?
They wont. In a few hundred years they will be looking at our buildings like we look at the pyramids and wondering how a society with almost no writing or culture could build something so large.
Think the European dark ages
