“ And that’s without taking into account the fact that we delete vast swathes of content all the time.”
My friend was musing about growing up in the 80s and 90s, and the artifacts and recordings of that era. He lamented that so much of the 80s and 90s was ephemeral, not saved in a cloud, or large hard disk, etc. Maybe a Zip disk, or a print out but largely unsaved. Imagine the first emails, correspondence on BBS’s, and other closed gardens, all of that is likely gone. Whereas since about 2001/2002 much, much more is getting saved, and growing by the second. It’s created for him this gap of information and reference creating a longing for that time period.
My friend was musing about growing up in the 80s and 90s, and the artifacts and recordings of that era. He lamented that so much of the 80s and 90s was ephemeral, not saved in a cloud, or large hard disk, etc. Maybe a Zip disk, or a print out but largely unsaved. Imagine the first emails, correspondence on BBS’s, and other closed gardens, all of that is likely gone. Whereas since about 2001/2002 much, much more is getting saved, and growing by the second. It’s created for him this gap of information and reference creating a longing for that time period.