Jokes and crimes aside, I have been reading that we will soon have a file blackout. We have never taken as many photos as we do today. But today’s little baby may find it difficult to show what it was like to live in our time to his grandchildren.
The other day I found some undeveloped films at my parents’ house. It was an old Kodakchrome from 1982. It was still possible to develop and print the photos. If JPG files can’t be read at the turn of the century, all of this will be lost…
I think the same goes for websites, social media posts and even this BBS. Will historians of the future laugh at the paradoxical irony of we having created and consumed so much content that there is no way to read it?
