Digital archaeologists dig up internet's past
It might not seem worth the bother when every tweet, Facebook update and
chat avatar is as mundane as the next, but theatre owners thought the same
thing in Victorian-era England when they issued payslips to actors. Today a
program called Nineteenth Century Collections Online has copies of them,
and they give us some of the few surviving artefacts - and insights - about
life at the time.
Sometimes conservation and commerce can find themselves at cross-purposes.
When obsolete services stop making money their owners can't be expected to
keep them alive just for educational purposes. It even sounds kind of silly
to talk about conserving stuff that was around when *Titanic* was at the
top of the box office.
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