I wonder what that's going to be like. I wonder if future archaeologists will be searching through current day forum databases when learning about us. Its going to be really curious as to how the net and us will evolve.
Makes me want to ponder the obstacles. Assuming the forum were to stay "active", it will need to change "stewards" numerous times - as well as the continued existence of vbulletin and a continuous dynasty of developers. Assuming vBulletin development stops, then there would need to be a transferral of all the old archived threads to whatever the new software is at the time. If the forum were ever to be made inactive (it dies at some point), then the hardware (hard drive/raid/servers/etc) containing sciforums will need to survive 1000 years, and remain unchanged.
my decedents will argue with sam decedents that we had to invade lebanon. the rest im not so sure of. :shrug:
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The world changes too rapidly. It's easier to fantasize about 50 years from now, when people might still be using microprocessors and some form of the internet. Heck, people still might be using different languages, and typing representations of those languages with keyboards in 50 years, too. Anything's possible Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Will any of this continue to exist once they unplug the equipment for the last time ? I mean - it's not as though there's a physical copy of all the blabbering going on here. One presumes that with the increasing emphasis on recycling, anything re-usable which makes up the servers & whatnot which keep this forum going might well be "melted down" for use as something else. Will anything as comparatively trivial as a particular discussion forum and the "mechanisms" containing the data comprising it be deemed significant enough to preserve, save perhaps by some eccentric ? Considering that we are already seeing the infancy of what one might term the "next generation" of online communication in the form of "virtual worlds" such as Second Life, it seems to me that by the time 100 years pass, let alone 1000, the manner in which people interact over whatever today's internet evolves into will make what we're doing now seem as quaint and/or archaic as the telegraph or smoke signals ! Still... Just as we're digging up stone tablets and pondering what the world was like then, perhaps people in the future will mull over keyboards and flame wars and wonder what we were about. I wonder if there will be "forum re-enactors"...
Haha this weekend is the 1030th anniversary of the banning of the bot. This was an important banning because it represented the fall of viagra, and the beginning of the age of naturally virile old men. ....and of course 1000 years finds the story over-dramatized, and historically inaccurate. In the future, it was actually an epic battle between the administrators (who were vastly outnumbered) and a horde of real robots.
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