Companies had copystriked all the arts and knowledge to hoard it into their now dead servers to get profit from subscription services only, so the only peak at humanity now are blogs, memes, and random posts.
What would you think of our civilization based on the Internet?
Cats and porn.
We really like porn. It doesn't how freaky the porn is, we all love it.
Pregnant Sonic banging Tails. Porn. Morticia going down on Cousin It. Porn. A step-sibling getting stuck. Porn.
Well after so long there's nothing left of the fragile silicon storage mediums, so as far as we can tell civilization basically ended in the late 90s as everyone moved to the mysterious ".com" which we assume to be a euphemism for death.
Hmm, wouldn't that go for a lot of the digital mediums of the 90's, too? Magnetic drives and tapes were the big deal back then just as now.
And also we have print magazines and books which absolutely talk about the Internet. And tape storage, etc.
Do tapes last longer than (unused) hard drives? I figured it's the same medium in a different shape.
Paper can rot away too, although it varies in stability and it can sometimes be read anyway (like with the Herculaneum scrolls) because it's so low-density it acts as a form or redundancy. Optical disks will last a long time, and you can get archival ones that should still be like new after millennia.
The humans from the mid 1900s and early to mid 2000s are so fucking stupid, and had a drop in their IQ for the one for the sole reason that people before them knew they were fucked up and desperate, but these ones are totally delusional, unhinged and believe in propaganda like fact, and that they romanticize working as a cog in this manipulative, filth-ridden machinery. Also, fuck them for not doing anything to stop the evil corporates from polluting this planet.
It feels a bit suspect to conveniently cut ourselves out of that period.
Don't worry, I'm firmly in there. I'll be extra complacent to make up for you younguns
