How would this be the dark age of tech? It's not like the actual Dark Ages, in which written records were few and far between, making it relatively difficult for historians to learn through historical texts.
No, instead we have hardware that will no longer work, and cannot be studied, because the auth servers have been shut down. We'll have software that cannot be downgraded and looked through, for our own safety. We'll have machines that will die, and cannot be repaired, because the replacement parts the OEM no longer manufactures or sells aren't matched to the device we want to revive.
