JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
By any metric, we're the most documented civilization ever. Future historians should have an unprecedented window into our daily lives, thoughts, and experiences. Right? Right?? https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-the-internet-era-might-be-historys-least-documented-period/
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AJ
@awedjob.eth
Just read your article. So many thoughts. My wife’s uncle used to work at the Library of Congress. His last big project was digitizing all of the glass slide negatives of Prokudin Gorskii. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/ Color photos taken of Czarist Russia! Previously a collection that only a handful of people in this century had experienced. By scanning and digitally combining the three sections of the glass slide they were able to reconstruct images from a time that we only associate with sepias and black and white. My uncle-in-law took my carefully selected images from the collection and had them printed. I framed a couple that hang in my home right now. When the sun comes up I will send you a photo of them. I have been online since 1984 when my 8th grade science teacher wedged the handset of our school’s telephone line into the mo-dem. I got some cutting edge snippets of Basic for the Apple IIe. Watch War Games with Mathew Broderick to see how that sort of contraption works.
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AJ
@awedjob.eth
Yes! Thank you! I’ve referred to this era as the inflatable castle. Like a bounce house, only by putting in constant energy does it have form and function. With previous, analog methods of documentation we had items of persistence. But film, print, paint, even stone tablets eventually turn to dust. Will read your piece with your interest.
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Good points though the worms eye view of the past was always a fraction of what actually happened Really tiny actually Today there’s still just more words and data points
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buffets
@buffets
Personal archiving would indeed need to be part of the repertoire of skills that make up digital literacy 💯
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compusophy
@compusophy
every action is a memory
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