Again an article about how the present will be lost forever.
How our ‘modern’ society will be lost forever.
The ‘digital life’ we live nowadays. How our ‘data’ will be lost forever.
What will the world in 500 years know about the life people live nowadays.
What will they know about us. History has been written down for centuries.
Written op paper. We can still read what has been written on paper. But
nowadays, much of that paper has been replaced by digital recordings.
Will those still be readable in a 500 years? There have been articles like
this before, and I think I’ve written about it before. We live in the modern
dark ages. The present will be lost forgood, maybe sooner then we realise.
Just try to read floppies created with a comodore 64 on a modern machine.
It’s virtually impossible. Not only modern machines don’t have 5¾” drives
anymore. The comodore 64 formatted its floppies in a way PC hardware is
unable to read.
And what about me. What is my place in this modern society of anomynously.
Our ‘digital’ lifes. What is my place? What is my role in this world.
If I would die tomorrow, would anyone remember me? Would anyone miss me?
My life, my digital life. Oh. I am around on many places in this
‘modern world’ on the internet. Started a community, back in 2005.
Yeah. I got my BlaatSchaap. But is that all??? I wish for more.
Not to only have this digital life. I wish for something more real.
It’s not that my is only what I have on the interner. I mean, there
are people I work with, people I meet at the student’s pub, but still.
I only meet them there. And what if I wouldn’t go to the student pub,
would anyone even notice I wasn’t there? would they? I doubt it.
The thing is. The reason why. I am affraid to be forgotten. That
noone will remember me when I am gone. That I will just be a ghost.
Just turn into nothing. That is what I fear most of all. To just,
just be forgotten like I was never there at all.
What is my life about anyways? What’s the purpose of life? I want
to mean something to the world. Not just to exist without a purpose.
And yet, it all seems so meaningless. So useless. Like it doesn’t
matter anyways. The world would go on without me, and noone would
notice a difference if I would just drop dead tomorrow. That’s
what bothers me.
What I am trying to say. I feel lonely. I am really wishing to
belong somewhere. or rather, to someone. I am just wishing to
be loved. I am just looking for some love. Being single sucks.
I am not saying I am not happy. But it’s just. I wish for something
more then this life I am living now. I am wishing for… what’s it
that I am wishing for? What is love anyways? What does it mean?
Oh, I have my dreams, my desired, what I wish it would be like to
love someone. To be in a passionate intense relationship. I would
want to spend as much time as possible with that person. Just, to
be happy together. I would go insane missing this person when we
are not together. Just, looking at that person, just a touch, that
would already mean a lot to me. Just some small details, meaningless
to the rest of the world I guess. Still… just dreams, just desires.
I am still alone…. still looking…. still waiting… but I don’t
want to just wait and see nothing like that will happen at all.
Welcome to the emptyness of ‘modern’ life, welcome to the new dark ages.
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The world would go on without me, and noone would notice a difference if I would just drop dead tomorrow. That’s what bothers me.
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What is this? Why are you talking like that? o_O
Of course you have friends (like Joyce, Eileen, Ralph and me for example). And behind the text on Blaatschaap are also real people who like you.
Even if it looks like some people are not your friends, they like to meet you. About two months ago, at our old studentunion ‘Demos’, some people (more than one) came to me and asked where you were. And when I was talking to the president of Demos (Ted) about you leaving, he said: ‘I’ve received a message that he signs out from Demos. That’s a pitty’. So you have friends, even if they treats you as a normal person.
Maybe computerdata will be lost (unless you print it out or write a convertor for it). When you have friends in the real world (even the staff on your trainee company and the people from your Swedish studentunion), you will be remembered.
Hans
Off course. It’s just a poke.
Ted became president. Didn’t know that. Oh yeah. Send the people at demos the greeting from me at “Blekinge stedentkår” (remember å is like oo in dutch)
Maybe it is a pity that I left that place. But at the time, the circumstances made me feel like it was not the demos anymore it was when i joined. Maybe that was a mistake. but whatever.
Yeah, dragon is gonna send me some “pepernoten” and I think I will spend xmas @home and new year @eileen. At least if I can get myself some train or plain tickets. International Train tickets online is not that easy. Websites displaying weird error messages.
And I am doing my internship at a college, not a company, you silly! *slaps* lol lol lol
Yep yep I am making some open source software here! USE IT BITCHES!!!! lol
Well… It would be an honour if someone uses the stuff I wrote. Only the microsoft compiler is a real bitch. Never heard of some C99 standard types and defines.
It seems demos got a new website, right? /me no member /me no login :(
Well read my previous post as well about this person at student union. lol.
Oh, and some other comment. As Ploffie from the HoaxNET IRC network said, it is possible to access comodore 64 disks with modern hardware. Yeah, it is, with special interface cards like the Catweasel MK4. I was referring to standard configuration. You need special equipment to be able to access those floppies because of their recording method.
Files stored in Open Standards will still be readable. But if I sent people files in an Open Standard, for example the OpenDocument format, most people will tell me they can’t open the files. So, proprietary files formats are used in stead, wich may result in data loss in the future. Besides of that, many data is ‘protected’ my DRM nowadays. Movies on Blu-ray disks for example.
And yes, the internet is being archived by sites like http://web.archive.org but that’s only static content while most content on the internet is dynamic nowadays.
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What is this? Why are you talking like that? o_O
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because i am emo sometimes!