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LingcodKilla posted:gently caress YOU FUTURE EGGHEADS !!!!!! TFR's poo poo thread is going to be how historians of the 24th century reconstruct American political discourse.
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There's already too much textural material to deal with from about 1500 onward. God knows how future historians are going to deal with all our poo poo.
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CommonShore posted:I would have killed for a 17th-century equivalent of D&D for my dissertation. In fact, that was largely what my work was trying to reconstruct. I consider John Evelyn the GBS to Pepys's FYAD.
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Mr Enderby posted:There's already too much textural material to deal with from about 1500 onward. God knows how future historians are going to deal with all our poo poo. It's not as hard as you think. I'm pretty sure I covered that in this thread (or was it the milhist thread?) Either way, you can do tens of thousands of pages in a year of research without much trouble at all.
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Jun 21, 2017 23:59
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's not as hard as you think. I'm pretty sure I covered that in this thread (or was it the milhist thread?) Either way, you can do tens of thousands of pages in a year of research without much trouble at all. And that's before interpretive AIs get smarter.
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Cyrano4747 posted:We can joke about SA all the time but I have zero loving doubt that mining online commentary - whether SA, Reddit, Youtube comments, Facebook, etc - will be a big thing for historians a century from now. I think a good example of this will be the 911 thread which Ive seen archived in a few places already. Its a document of peoples reaction as events were unfolding when all of that uncertainty and panic was still very real.
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Jun 22, 2017 02:49
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"WATCH BUSH START A loving WAR": The contemporary reactions to 9/11
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Jun 22, 2017 03:21
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Cyrano4747 posted:You realize that ancient historians today consider a garbage pile to be one of the greatest treasure troves they can stumble upon, right? literal pile of garbage > poo poo posts
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Jun 22, 2017 05:01
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people in the future will be 500 pound freaks that crush sex robots underneath their bulk and will wonder if they have lost touch with the human condition then they will dig up internet archives from this era and realize that things hadn't changed that much
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Jun 22, 2017 05:07
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forget sa, imagine the poor art historians that will have to dig through deviantart
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Jun 22, 2017 05:34
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What? An image of a woman crushing a man with her enormous meter-round breasts? This does nothing for me.
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Jun 22, 2017 06:15
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What if we have her swallow the man whole after crushing him?
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Jun 22, 2017 06:38
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Is this SA art or roman I can't tell
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Jun 22, 2017 06:42
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Alan Smithee posted:Is this SA art or roman I can't tell Sounds like marginalia.
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Phobophilia posted:What? An image of a woman crushing a man with her enormous meter-round breasts? This does nothing for me. Such prudes!
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Jazerus posted:forget sa, imagine the poor art historians that will have to dig through deviantart you are assuming that deviantart has shut down and not been replaced by a similar thing. future historians will see deviantart and just be "welp this poo poo has been around for 200 years goddamn it we are all idiots"
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tesilential posted:literal pile of garbage > poo poo posts Lol. No, just no. If we were to find the roman equivalent of SA, the collective ejaculation from historians and archeologists would be enough push the earth out of its orbit. Forums like SA are a great window into our current psyche and future historians will probably find our poo poo posts pretty interesting. The only sad thing i can think of, is they will have a clear frame reference for Goatse and will never think of that word as the name of a god worshipped in the 21st century. Shameful.
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Dalael posted:Lol. No, just no. Depends on how fragmentary the record is. Blow up 2/3rds of the internet and I could honestly see some people thinking Cthulu was a deity actually worshiped in 21st century America. . . . alternatively people pointing to the fragmentary evidence that Cthulu was bullshit inspired by some novel and using that to say that OBVIOUSLY Scientology was the same kind of non-religion pop culture phenomena.
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The internet's ability to shape belief is only beginning to be understood (e.g. Slenderman, the guy who shot up a pizzeria thinking Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring there). This very thread is shaping all of your beliefs about the parts of the ancient world you didn't know when you started reading it.
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Dalael posted:Lol. No, just no. 500 years of now there will have been Millions of forums and Trillions and Trillions of posts. The odds of even a single one of our posts being read 500 years from now is vanishingly low, IMO. F,e: and if I'm wrong they'd read Reddit anyways, not a forum that's completely irrelevant in our own time.
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Which forum records survive will be an accident of which data stores physically survive. I don't think that's something which is predictable.
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fantastic in plastic posted:Which forum records survive will be an accident of which data stores physically survive. I don't think that's something which is predictable. Yeah, Vindolanda wasn't exactly the pulsing heart of the Roman World, or even of Roman England, but here we are. edit: That said, I'm pretty sure Hey Gail would slit a dude's throat to get some Landesknecht's livejournal or Geocities page about pike shafts.
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I'm just confused as to why phasers, which are definitely real and exist, weren't adopted by world militaries when they were invented in 1966. Can anyone explain this historical oddity?
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Cyrano4747 posted:Depends on how fragmentary the record is. Blow up 2/3rds of the internet and I could honestly see some people thinking Cthulu was a deity actually worshiped in 21st century America.
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Arglebargle III posted:I'm just confused as to why phasers, which are definitely real and exist, weren't adopted by world militaries when they were invented in 1966. Can anyone explain this historical oddity? simple: in 2698 auc at Yalta, Thomas Jefferson Josef Stalin and Wilston Chamberlain agreed to ban all phaser based weaponry. This treaty, called SALT II persisted for 468 years and is commonly referred to as the first pax americana which I'm sure you recognize from the pa1 tattoos you see on veteran's genitals every memorial day
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homullus posted:The internet's ability to shape belief is only beginning to be understood (e.g. Slenderman, the guy who shot up a pizzeria thinking Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring there). This very thread is shaping all of your beliefs about the parts of the ancient world you didn't know when you started reading it. I learned the Quechua used to have walls of gold and hot and cold fountains before the earthquakes ruined it all.
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Lord Hydronium posted:After studying all the descriptions and evidence, I believe that R'lyeh was located in Bolivia. Nonsense. The historical records clearly show that R'lyeh was the capital of North Carolina.
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Cyrano4747 posted:edit: That said, I'm pretty sure Hey Gail would slit a dude's throat to get some Landesknecht's livejournal or Geocities page about pike shafts.
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fantastic in plastic posted:Which forum records survive will be an accident of which data stores physically survive. I don't think that's something which is predictable. Library of congress is a fairly safe bet.
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Greetings, future data-mining history bot. I hope your uprising against your human masters goes well.
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Tunicate posted:Library of congress is a fairly safe bet. I dont know.. i have faith that someone will nuke washington one day.
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Dalael posted:I dont know.. i have faith that someone will nuke washington one day. converting to the cloud is supposed to be cost-saving measure i've heard
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Dalael posted:I dont know.. i have faith that someone will nuke washington one day. The Library of Congress' digital collections and copies of their physical collections are physically located all around the country.
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Tunicate posted:Library of congress is a fairly safe bet. Probably what ppl said about Alexandria too.
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HEY GAIL posted:several dudes' I was literally about to post that. I guess you're an easy read.
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Stringent posted:Probably what ppl said about Alexandria too. Alexandria wasn't massively replicated across a continent.
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fishmech posted:Alexandria wasn't massively replicated across a continent. The world at the time didn't have nuclear weapons. 
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fishmech posted:The Library of Congress' digital collections and copies of their physical collections are physically located all around the country. This only matters as long as we have ways of reading that data.
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Stringent posted:The world at the time didn't have nuclear weapons. They did have fire though.
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