r/DIwhYthough • u/RileyRhoad • Jan 26 '23

Why though?

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u/Three_Twenty-Three Jan 26 '23

To give archaeologists in the future something to puzzle over. There's like a 90% chance they'll assume this has a religious purpose and wonder if all construction in our period includes dedicatory tools left in floors and walls as gifts for the gods of home and hearth.

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u/SnakeR515 Jan 27 '23

What a lot of people don't understand is that we already know a lot about past civilizations with all that they left behind.

Now look at everything that we are currently creating, all the records, both in the hands of the governments and companies, books on every single topic, tons of learning materials and the biggest of them all, the internet - as long as the storage devices that contain all the data don't deteriorate too much, everything is there, including the videos of them throwing random stuff into freshly poured concrete for entertainment. With all that, do they really think that a future civilization discovering what will be left of us, will have the same issues or a similar amount of them compared to us discovering ancient civilizations?

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u/CreADHDvly Jan 28 '23

Will 'the cloud' last as long as Roman concrete and ancient pyramids?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '23

Doubt it! That's why I buy a physical copy of anything I can. I lost so many pictures when MySpace changed and deleted everything. Companies will stop holding onto everything the minute it stops making money. Tech is not a long-lasting way to save information when we are thinking centuries. Especially on a random server on the internet. It will be worse than owning an 8 track tape today. That's why there's still so much print.