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Saved Games: Preserving the New TVWill today's games be remembered in future decades? Troy S. Goodfellow looks at the Digital Preservation Project's effort to archive videogames.
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Learn a bit more about one of the first MUDs (TinyMUD) that is no longer online but is still brought back to life once a year to celebrate the MUD's original birthday: http://www.spellboundblo...s-tinymud-to-secondlife/
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Excellent, thanks for sharing the link.
In a way this article is sad because there will still be many games that have potential to be lost forever. PC gamers need to get together and start a preservation project now, before many of the great games out there dissapear forever.
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I disagree that "a great percentage of humanity's cultural achievements will soon be saved for future generations." This might work for data - digital images, films, games - but as for most of humanity's cultural achievements, we'll still need the physical museums and archives to be standing. Forever.
And, even for data, that's ephemeral stuff. I have horrific anxiety about losing data, but I have to admit that data preservation is ultimately kind of wishful thinking. It seems as difficult, if not worse, than keeping old parchment from becoming yellow and brittle.
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@RyanKuo:
Flood and fire threatened ancient libraries, now one decent magnetic storm could erase so much more.
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