Software is ephemeral.

Very little of it lasts for long. And if it does, it's legacy banking or some ossified terrible thing people are afraid to touch - not something revered.

Every piece of software today will be rewritten. By 2100 much of it will be dead and gone. Like punch cards that have rotted away.

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coldbrewed 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Your bank's mainframe would like to know your location.

	▲	tjwebbnorfolk an hour ago \| parent [-]
		survivorship bias. while something like 20% of code in production today runs on mainframes, that probably represents <0.1% of all code ever written

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card_zero 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Games

	▲	purpleflashing 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I share the sentiment as a gamer but according to preservationists the majority of games have already been lost to history.