**صفر** @lichen@octodon.social · Jun 25, 2018, 10:42

**صفر** @lichen@octodon.social · Jun 25, 2018, 10:42

صفر @lichen@octodon.social

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/

**jjg** @jjg · Jun 25, 2018, 11:40

**jjg** @jjg · Jun 25, 2018, 11:40

@lichen I worry about this frequently

**صفر** @lichen@octodon.social · Jun 25, 2018, 11:53

**صفر** @lichen@octodon.social · Jun 25, 2018, 11:53

@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

**jjg** @jjg · 2018-06-25T13:50:29Z

jjg @jjg

@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).

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**صفر** @lichen@octodon.social · Jun 25, 2018, 13:56

**صفر** @lichen@octodon.social · Jun 25, 2018, 13:56

@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