interesting points in favor of preserving physical archives
"How Digital Archives Delete the Human Experience"
https://thewalrus.ca/how-digital-archives-delete-the-human-experience/
@lichen I worry about this frequently
@jjg yeah, and the fragility of the 'digital' both in terms of infrastructure and quality/quantity of information is kind of underestimated. this article on the topic is very interesting too https://medium.com/@hautepop/digital-dust-356172db322f
@lichen I've already experienced this loss personally (I can't access the programs I wrote when I was young because they are on a medium and in a format that I no longer have hardware compatible with).
@jjg oh yeah definitely...there are many ongoing efforts in trying to preserve old software and hardware by people passionate in archiving and retro computing... yet it feels like a loss game at the right time-scale
