The other day, I stumbled down a twitter rabbit hole that lead to a discussion of the new field of Digital Archeology. The quote that stuck out to me was at the end of the piece:
But if we’re going to get serious about digital data conservation, the time is now — we might never know how much we’ve really lost from the early and pre-web eras. As entrepreneur Matthew Stibbe told the South China Morning Post about the computer games company he ran in the early 90s (the data from which is long gone): “In 500 years the 1980s onwards may seem like a dark age. It’ll be the greatest act of collective amnesia in human history.”