One of the interesting side effects of Microsoft buying GitHub is whatever we leave behind might just sit there for centuries or even millennia for historians and the curious and AI to explore. We kind of have this opportunity to make our own time capsules and maybe in a thousand years some enthusiast is like, wow I got this ancient project to compile!
Way back in the 90s, when everything was still in sepia, I thought all the Geocities and Angelfire personal websites would be doing this exact thing. Hanging around as a time capsule in perpetuity, accessible by future generations as easily as the current. It turns out eternity is approximately 10 years by this measure. Maybe Github will fare better.
I make prophecies. I write them down and seal them in envelopes, then I wait. When one is proven false, I just throw it away. When it comes true, I put the still-sealed envelope into an old shoebox.
My posthumous autobiography is going to be filled to the brim with stories of receiving messages from beyond, writing down what the voices say, and putting the notes in sealed envelopes inside a shoebox.
[+] [-] benologist|6 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] johnfactorial|6 years ago|reply
I make prophecies. I write them down and seal them in envelopes, then I wait. When one is proven false, I just throw it away. When it comes true, I put the still-sealed envelope into an old shoebox.
My posthumous autobiography is going to be filled to the brim with stories of receiving messages from beyond, writing down what the voices say, and putting the notes in sealed envelopes inside a shoebox.
[+] [-] kyle-rb|6 years ago|reply
Wouldn't it be easier to just write down things that happened already and pretend you predicted them?
[+] [-] sfblah|6 years ago|reply