I started writing tweets about that state of the field of digital history article. I've drafted 5 so far. Lol. Not sure I'm strong enough to take that on today. Maybe after breakfast enough neurons will be firing that I'll be able to do it w/o humiliating myself or anyone else.
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4/ Oh, and I forgot about the Software Preservation Society. And Redump. And TOSEC. Preserving digital history suffers from the same problem the open-source community does: Everyone thinks they can do better, and only rarely do people actually collaborate.
5/ Ultimately, I'm happy to be working on MAME, where at the end of the day, our goal is to dispassionately preserve everything. A pie-in-the-sky goal, to be sure, but one which has kept the project going for 23 years, and most likely will for another 23 more.
