it would really be nice if copyright durations were shorter than the lifetimes of the medium the copyrighted material is stored on…

Imagine how much the demagnetization of floppy disks will destroy

— today we are all nicole (@nerionaya) January 1, 2019

It makes me sad sometimes when I think of the computer culture of the 1980s and all of the little programs and applications and shareware that’ll now be lost forever. There’s already quite a lot of stuff that I used then that I can find no trace of on the internet anywhere — not the first record.

Not all of it was great. In fact, hardly any of it was. But it’s part of an important history and much of it is just gone.