I love the term "software archaeology" because it implies the existence of subfields such as "software experimental archaeology" (attempting to reconstruct and demonstrate how people once built software) and "software paleoethnobotany" (quantifying what botanicals were culturally significant to software and the broader historic implications to the societies that wrote it), but also the existence of the broader field "software anthropology" and its offshoot "software sociology", and
You might say to yourself "Aeva, there's no such thing as Software Paleoethnobotany that's absurd", but some day a thousand years from now someone is going to be tasked with analyzing the remains of a surprisingly well preserved set of backup disks for an ancient industrial automation system to reconstruct the lost recipe for brewing the legendary "miller high life"
@aeva Published November 3057: Relative efficacy of indoor hydroponic software focused on cultivation of Sativa strains.
Abstract
We study a number of intact hydroponic devices that date to an era immediately before the second North American dust bowl. Comparative analysis of the installed software strongly suggest that this is not an antecedent of the common Strawbery2 hydro system which provided homesteads with most of their calories during the early 2250s.