Regardless of how it's stored, eventually the data itself becomes meaningless. I read an article that made this point last year. Ever try to read Chaucer in the original english? Same language, more or less, but over several hundred years it has become unintelligible to all but a handful of people. The way language is changing today, it could take even less time for all these articles on slashdot to become gibberish. So with a perfect medium, who would we be preserving things for? A handful of scholars, ignored by everyone? No one at all?
If you're interested in the actual geography of the net rather than a theoretical one, check out this page for some cool research on the geographical distribution of domain names. It's by a dude named Zook, who is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in the Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Neat maps.
Don't confuse the puritans with the political correctness crowd. Their aims sometimes overlap, but they come from opposite sides of the political spectrum. The AFA would happily block out references to feminism, homosexuality, non-christian religions and racial equality. And they're very much pro-white male. "Family" in this case = right wing thought control, whereas pc generally = leftist brainwashing.
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Regardless of how it's stored, eventually the data itself becomes meaningless. I read an article that made this point last year. Ever try to read Chaucer in the original english? Same language, more or less, but over several hundred years it has become unintelligible to all but a handful of people. The way language is changing today, it could take even less time for all these articles on slashdot to become gibberish. So with a perfect medium, who would we be preserving things for? A handful of scholars, ignored by everyone? No one at all?
If you're interested in the actual geography of the net rather than a theoretical one, check out this page for some cool research on the geographical distribution of domain names. It's by a dude named Zook, who is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in the Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Neat maps.
Don't confuse the puritans with the political correctness crowd. Their aims sometimes overlap, but they come from opposite sides of the political spectrum. The AFA would happily block out references to feminism, homosexuality, non-christian religions and racial equality. And they're very much pro-white male. "Family" in this case = right wing thought control, whereas pc generally = leftist brainwashing.