Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Archive”
Websites and Lost Culture
I had something of an obsession with preserving history. It’s why I am constantly using photography to document my life. (And was doing so back when we had to use expensive film) A few months ago I wrote about how emulation can help us preserve our culture when it comes to video games. We’re in a weird place right now in our culture - everything is digital. If there were to be some sort of catastrophic apocalypse, any aliens that came to Earth would think we stopped inventing stuff in the Industrial Revolution. (Only a slight exaggeration) Even if we just look at humanity - if something were to wipe out technology (see many sci-fi stories including the manga/anime Nausicaa and Trigun) all the information we know - all the petabytes on the net would be inaccessible and lost forever. But if we dial it back a bit and forget about those doomsday scenarios - it’s important to see that culture is informed by what came before it. (Super heroes are just modern day greek gods, and so on) It’s why the Library of Congress collects important works of culture for preservation.