▲ | dreamworld 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
It might be of some interest to cultural historians in the future. But I think it makes more sense to take sample+curated data. But in any case if we can afford it, eh why not. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | rbanffy 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
We don't know now what to curate for the future. We should preserve as much of everything we can - we don't know what will be important in 50, or 500 years. Case in point: retrocomputing is my hobby. I buy, restore, preserve, and use old computers. Most of them are home computers, because business computers go directly from the office to the recycling facility or the landfill. Unless someone deliberately preserved, say, a Burroughs B-25 desktop, or the similar from Data General, they are gone. | |||||||||||||||||
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