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678 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8672 21:36

>>673
I remember a fair few forums I used to use that have since been shuttered, mostly anime sites, and in a way I am glad that those childish things have disappeared, but I think it would be better to still have them to look back and reflect on the fact that you once did not know what you know now.

>>674
There is also the problem that storing information is not profitable, take twitch streams for an example, they delete them because it does not make them money to keep them long after the fact, but a large part of understanding an in joke or part of that culture may be something from an old stream that no new person can ever find.

>>676
There's this whole bandwaggoning onto SSD that has been happening for some time now, but SSD has a limited number of read/write operations it can ever preform, meaning the information is gone if it ever hits that cap. The deeper issue here with the lack of information for the future is a far more human one, people get bored of things and move on, so something that may have been insurmountably important to the genesis of an item in the eye of the cultural zeitgeist may have been completely forgotten about, abandoned, and erased. You could look at world2ch that lead to the creation of 4chan but whose archive is incomplete and even the people who care passionately about it tried to archive what they remember, or you could look at old movies, the BBC printed over the first runs of most of it's iconic old TV shows because the film was more expensive than how much they valued the content.
As for high quality paper, for certain things people have deemed important we make copies that will last, but for things actually important to the culture of people on the street we use toiletpaper that will degrade. The reason Marvel #1 is so valuable is that it was printed on shitty paper and was uninteresting, but it led to the creation of a media empire. Similarly the fictions that led to the mythos of the wild wild west are lost entirely, they were printed on chipped pulp that degraded within months, much of American culture and even the motives of the third reich were based on these books that are all but completely gone. So how many issues of comic High Action or Megastore or LO or even Jump do you think will survive into the next decade? How many popular doujin artists are there whose early work no longer exists in any form as it was never archived?
Now when it comes to digital it is alleviated a bit by how easy it is to distribute things, although this is illegal so there is probably a fair amount lost to not wanting to be a pirate, but there is still the problem that a lot of media, especially games, changes online. Think about how many updates there have been to League of Legends or Maplestory or even Starcraft, each of these versions may be wildly different from the ones before or after and it is unlikely that anyone has a record of all of them, and that's only works that you could ever obtain something like a browser based game would require a dedicated person to reverse engineer it every update which are not necessarily ever document. Phone apps are much the same but even harder to distribute or maintain and given how easy it is to get people to use an app many influential versions of content are completely lost within months.
A dark age in history doesn't even begin to describe it, it would be as if all the knowledge about the culture was lost then too, if we never found pots or swords from the romans and only knew they existed because of their bones, vast sects of our culture will never be remembered simply because our media degrades and the only people who thought to preserve it were the internet archive and their woefully inadequate system.

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