this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
370 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

59575 readers
3194 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
370
Vanishing act: 87% of classic video games are no longer available commercially | The disappearance of classic video games (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
42 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

That probably doesn't come as much of a surprise to retro gaming enthusiasts, but those outside the gaming community might not even know there is a problem....

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Humanity's existed for hundreds of thousands of years without any kind of permanent medium, and we still do. It's only in the very recent history of extreme archival that we've come to think that information should last forever.

Houses, cities, peoples, cultures, public works, countries, knowledge, technologies, languages - all that we are is ephemeral, and we'll continue on