Are you really interested in reading a 50 year old newspaper article about a collision that happened midday on Saturday afternoon in your community newspaper?
Of course not. BUT on the other hand that particular collision may become highly relevant in those 50 years. Imagine your own scenario where the facts reported on the day might conflict with something claimed to be true much later, and the person wasn’t notable at the time but they’re highly notable now.
The issue is we don’t know what may be important after many years, decades or centuries have passed. Given how easily text compresses, it would be a shame to not have at least text of real news sources archived perpetually. I know there is also an endless stream of listicles which are just generated to get clicks and ad views, but newspapers are worth archiving.
> Imagine your own scenario where the facts reported on the day might conflict with something claimed to be true much later, and the person wasn’t notable at the time but they’re highly notable now.
I do see your point. I'm reminded of the photograph who snapped basically a digital throw away picture of Monica Lewinsky weeks/months/years before anyone really knew who she was. later on, he was happy to have that picture, since it was one (or the only one) of her at some event hugging Clinton.
Text is easy enough to store, but making it useful to search and access seems like another problem to solve.
xp84|1 year ago
The issue is we don’t know what may be important after many years, decades or centuries have passed. Given how easily text compresses, it would be a shame to not have at least text of real news sources archived perpetually. I know there is also an endless stream of listicles which are just generated to get clicks and ad views, but newspapers are worth archiving.
brisketbbq|1 year ago
I do see your point. I'm reminded of the photograph who snapped basically a digital throw away picture of Monica Lewinsky weeks/months/years before anyone really knew who she was. later on, he was happy to have that picture, since it was one (or the only one) of her at some event hugging Clinton.
Text is easy enough to store, but making it useful to search and access seems like another problem to solve.