I was struck by how _physical_ the exhibits are. For the most part, the exhibits are old hardware. In some cases, they have the hardware running software that you can use.
Software from the PC era can be preserved with emulators (assuming its copy protection can be defeated), but what about internet software? The museum has a _photo_ of Google's first server, but not much about Google's software. Should we be preserving screenshots of Google results so we'll know what they used to look like?
I was struck by how _physical_ the exhibits are. For the most part, the exhibits are old hardware. In some cases, they have the hardware running software that you can use.
Software from the PC era can be preserved with emulators (assuming its copy protection can be defeated), but what about internet software? The museum has a _photo_ of Google's first server, but not much about Google's software. Should we be preserving screenshots of Google results so we'll know what they used to look like?