Its a shame that Dee/default_friend deleted her twitter, as the internet-history-as-oral question she's raising is a real one, though sort of not in the way that she's approaching it. I'll explain.
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But the internet counterintuitively behaves as a great information eraser. It depends upon the latest technology to access, retrieve, and then transmit information. And what happens when a given amount of information has only been captured by an obsolete technology?
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There aren't that many truly obsolete data storage or transfer methods. While tape players may not be widespread anymore, they are simple machines to make and operate. Any DVD player will play a CD as well, and data from old hard drives readily transfers to flash storage.
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Of course that’s literally true, but that doesn’t keep most of that information from disappearing. Someone has to *consciously* convert the data.
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I tend to think the problem will go the other way: without the ability to view a running feed in real time, public blog posts and chat messages will be archived [albeit spottily] but difficult to review due to their volume. Look at how many tweets Trump had.
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