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What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)

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Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Imagine if, in 100 years, there was a massive Carrington Event and most of the world's data was destroyed. How would we piece our history back together?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty obvious. We build a time machine to go back to 1776. Then, when it malfunctions and sends to 1976 instead we learn the art of The Hustle.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

There's a movie about that.

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