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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here's the original for higher quality

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Relevant xkcd about these xkcd's:

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I believe it's mandatory to add jpeg when linking to that comic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If I can't find a well used vintage I'll weather it myself in the deep fryer. I don't do too much, but just a little touch goes a long way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It would be better to use .PCX or .TGA

The Digital Dark Age is real. At best, we are carving out runes out in a language the future will no longer understand.

What do you have stored on your Zip drives and DAT tapes? Because not only are we carving runes but in fact we are chiselling them into sandstone.

Paper writing will last vastly longer than most digital archive formats. If the data is not actually lost, the devices to read them will be. If we somehow read the data off, it will be incomprehensible gibberish. The file formats could eventually be decoded I suppose, like hieroglyphics. Unless of course they are encrypted….

500 years from now, there will be less information about what we were doing day to day than there is for things that happened hundreds of years ago. If anything is left, it will be the “official” record. In other words, all that will be left are lies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

man, I haven't seen that image in ages. So much nostalgia

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Title text too:

Wow, that's less than $200 per ... uh ... that's a good deal!

https://xkcd.com/670/