Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern...
by pjmlp on Sunday January 27, 2019 @11:27AM
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I think about that every time I am visiting an archaeological site with stone inscriptions.
Looking 5000 years in the future, no one will be able to read our documents, like we do with those written 5000 years ago.
Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern...
by thfuran on Sunday January 27, 2019 @01:20PM
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Reading 25 year old documents is hard enough. I mean, none of my current computers even has an optical drive, let alone a 3.5" floppy. To say nothing of the actually-floppy floppies.
A lot of memoirs from this writer's era certainly didn't survive either, but it seems like there was a greater chance back then even considering the cost of pen, ink and paper.