From the inability of NASA and the DOD to reverse engineer their own tech from the 60s/70s, to the alleged humor that Blizzard has a bounty for anyone who can provide them with the original WoW code

Media storage is only as good as the hardware and the networks they support, time, corruption, and meat-space disruption will make it inevitable that vast amounts of data will be lost

'Internet never forgets' my ass

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Funny you should mention this because something in this vein would be my dream job. Like working in a museum of media as an archiver or curator. And yeah it's very common for companies to just throw away stuff like code once a project is done, only for it to come around and bite them in the ass years later when fans want more of the original.