Subj : Resurgence of non-mainstr
To : Boraxman
From : Kaelon
Date : Mon May 02 2022 07:32 am
Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Mon May 02 2022 07:04 pm
> The best was simple web pages set up by people who knew their subject, and
> put their findings on the Internet for posterity. They too are harder to
> find, but you come accross them from time to time. Simple HTML pages, some
> inline images, thats it. I save webpages that are good references to an
> archive hard disk, incase I need it later and the site or page dissapears.
I love this practice, and genuinely, wish I would adopt it more often myself. Of course, the loss of Geocities was tremendous because virtually all of those sites were filled with really interesting information from amateurs and professionals alike. True subject matter experts are passionate and know their topics really well, and when you see them provide insight, it's a joy to read and review.
Re: your later statement about what will stand the test of time, as much as I like to think that a digital archive will be the enduring trove of our lifetimes, I am genuinely worried that the continuing obsolescence of media, operating systems, and formats will lead to a great Dark Age of knowledge, when computers of the future won't be able to read the files from today, let alone the 1980s or 1990s.
People keep insisting that the best way to preserve knowledge is to print it out. I'm just glad that I never became a true digital native, despite having been raised in the 1980s and 1990s and growing up around systems. I always print pretty much everything; it's how my brain works!
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