What will happen to old media? Like ancient video formats, or Adobe Flash games. Or software (games, art, etc) for obsolete progamming languages. Do you think people will preserve it, or will it just be forgotten forever?
Right now, we try to preserve cave paintings and pottery of ancient cultures. I think that, for the sake of history, we need to preserve old technology too.
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Anonymous2018-04-26 19:11
Rotational velocidensity will destroy all media anyway. Though i'm not sure if such things will affect data in 4th dimensional media like time crystals. But probably there are rotational velocidensity issues in higher dimensions too.
e/g/in meme /g/ro. Haven't heard that one in a while.
It's funny how technology moves so quickly. That ``rotational velocidensity'' meme was back when people would actually pirate music, and they'd debate mp3 vs. FLAC. But now? Stream errythang from the cloud. Spotify, Bandcamp, etc. People don't even need to know what an mp3 or FLAC file is to listen to music now. In fact, I'd say the concept of a "file" (aside from photos) is becoming increasingly abstracted away from the average user.
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Anonymous2018-04-26 20:18
it will be uploaded to the cloud/blockchain and stored in a decentralized cryptoarchive forever
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Anonymous2018-04-26 21:00
>>4 What's the endgame for cryptocurrencies? I heard that Bitcoin only has a finite amount of coins. What will happen to mining and transaction processing when there's no longer any BTC to be obtained? Do people still get paid? I don't get what the incentivization system will be. Or will it just collapse in on itself?
>Adobe Flash games well archive.org probably has a few collections of them but swfchan also a bunch of flash files archived too and hopefully forever. I'm also pretty certain that there's someone archiving the packages that adobe puts out for the flash player and there's also plenty of torrents for cracked versions of flash from the CS6 to CC. Hopefully those don't require the adobe servers to be up in order to install. I don't know if they're doing it right now but if something like that does happen someone will probably make an open source program similar to Flash.
obviously we won't preserve everything. IIRC we've been producing more text than single human could read since medieval times, and we definitely have been doing that since the invention of a printing press. only a fraction of that is remembered
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Anonymous2018-04-27 10:59
>>11 Survival of the Popular. Without archive.org there are very few resources willing to host rare and unpopular content. Storage costs space. Hard disk degrade. Flash loses chard. Tapes demagnetize. All current storage devices on the market don't last more than few decades. New data formats and protocols are invented each year making a portion of old devices obsolete.