To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
How did MySpace look around 2009? We don't really know, the Wayback Machine only shows a limited amount of static content, and there may only be a few surviving screenshots
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails.
What was it like playing Angry Birds on an iPhone 3G? We do not know; Apple is no longer distributing signed receipts for that binary.
What did the British cabinet discuss when they first learned of the Coronavirus pandemic? We do not know; they chatted on a private WhatsApp group.
What books were published analysing the aftermath of the Maidan coup in Ukraine? We do not know; we do not have the keys for the Digital Editions DRM.
How was the coup covered in televised news? We do not know; the broadcasters used RealVideo and Windows Media Encoder and we cannot read those files.
We have to ask ourselves how we are going to preserve and transmit knowledge about our age to the next generations. Knowledge about an age where information is produced, consumed and discarded within hours, days or months, or where it's only stored on the server rooms of a handful of corporations, with no guarantees that those businesses will exist in the future, and with no way of accessing that information unless a certain set of regulatory, hardware, software pre-conditions are met.
That's why projects like the Internet Archive deserve more recognition and funding. That's why web scraping should not only be a civic right, but a civic duty to the next generations. Otherwise all the knowledge about the great age of information will be transmitted orally - with all the distortions that such transmission implies.
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El ejército colombiano ha matado a Jesús #Santrich.
Parece que el sitio web de la Segunda Marquetalia está sobrecargada y no responde correctamente.
Colombian army killed Jesús #Santrich.
It seems that the website of Segunda Marquetalia is overloaded and it doesn't respond correctly.
@piedadcordoba: Piensen por un momento qué estaría diciendo Duque si la matanza pasara en #Venezuela http://www.psuv.org.ve/temas/noticias/piedad-cordoba-piensen-por-un-momento-que-estaria-diciendo-duque-si-matanza-pasara-venezuela/
Freddy Ñáñez sobre #Colombia: El silencio de los medios aturde http://www.psuv.org.ve/temas/noticias/freddy-nanez-sobre-colombia-silencio-medios-aturde/
RT @la_usurpadora92@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/la_usurpadora92/status/1389664241796489221
🎥🛑En #Colombia: COPIEN Y PEGUEN “Lo Mataron, Están disparando Con Fusil, La Policía lo Mató
#SOSColombiaDDHH #SOSColombiaNosEstanMatando
#ParoNacional5M
POR FAVOR DIFUNDIR🇺🇳NECESITAMOS AYUDA @CIDH
VAMOS HACERLO VIRAL
@_Ralito @rhm1947 @AnonNews_Col
https://t.co/bgwhVJnlFk
https://twitter.com/ChalecosAmarill/status/1389842169205334018?s=09
RT @dfertl@twitter.com
On #26Abril 1937 the #Nazi Luftwaffe's Condor Legion & Mussolini's #fascist airforce, on #Franco's orders, bombed the #Basque town of #Gernika.
The attack targeted a civilian population on market day. 85% of buildings were destroyed & 100s died
#Gernika84urte #Guernica #NoPasarán
Giving a try to #PulseEffects in #Manjaro #GNU #Linux. It's a great equalizer. As it doesn't include presets, you can easily install them from: https://github.com/JackHack96/PulseEffects-Presets
Un día funesto para la humanidad: el agua comienza a cotizar en el mercado financiero
Me when I think of the worker and people status after this pandemia #WhatAWonderfulWorld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLrfjqgLbNU
From teleworkers to #DeustcheBank (About this news: https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/deutsche-bank-working-from-home-tax-staff-workers-businesses-2020-11)
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