What if the entire internet gets reduced to a footnote?
What if the entire internet gets reduced to a footnote?
Inspired by the post about the hieroglyphs the one dude hoped would last forever.
People always talk about future historians being confused at memes and old forums, but surely a lot of catastrophic events could just wipe out the internet wholesale, right? If something REALLY COOL 
like a giant meteor wiped out everybody, what if aliens came along and were deeply confused that our culture seems to end randomly in the mid 2010s, subsumed by an internet whose only remaining shreds are references in big scientific studies?
The history textbooks on our dumb asses would surely read "and the humans all talked into screens and used "hyper links" to share information and opinions. Very little is known about this obscure human ritual as no evidence can be found of its existence beyond scattered references in ancient texts contemporary to its existence."
Thinkin bout the impermanence of the internet rn
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Probably, seconding the architecture of the internet or people with computers somehow still functional having small offline copies of pages. For a more positive spin on this eventually the internet will be replaced by something different through time, ideally better with its own set of problems, so in that sense the internet as we know of it will be a footnote for future generations over long enough time.
Idk if offline copies of pages would help their understanding much, lol. Just weird little pages that would probably look like digital newspapers...
I look forwaed to the net being replaced!!
That's what the internet is in a way isn't it? I was thinking more of the lines of kiwix for example, or something crawled through with one of those html grabbers, they'd get the gist is they can click through links like flipping through pages, more of a tree than a book though. They wouldn't understand the interaction with others, it'd be super limited library internet pre 2000s experience in a way.
Tbh they'd be having a better experience than we are now in 99% of cases now
Yea no chatbot telling them high octane nightmare fuel about cock roaches, they'll be limited to someone's little homebrew llm they encounter at best.