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History of Technology
6 topics
- Digital Archaeology
When you discover your past digital traces
When you accidentally discover past digital traces — old blogs, social media posts, emails, forum comments — left by your former self, what …
- Digital Archaeology
What Does the Loss of Internet Culture Mean?
The loss of internet culture refers to the phenomenon where unique forms of expression and community cultures that flourished from the 1990s…
- Digital Archaeology
Does Digital Data Have an 'Original'?
Does digital data have an 'original'? — This question touches the core of digital archaeology. In the analog era, there existed a 'unique or…
- Digital Archaeology
When data becomes unreadable, what is lost?
When digital data becomes unreadable due to obsolete formats or degradation, what do we lose? This question probes the loss of memory, cultu…
- Digital Archaeology
What Does Past Technology Ask of the Present?
The question 'What does past technology ask of the present?' is a foundational inquiry in digital archaeology. Floppy disks holding data, ol…
- Digital Archaeology
About Gravestones on the Internet
Internet gravestones refer to online tribute pages for the deceased, frozen social media accounts, traces of closed websites, or deliberatel…