Star Wars is naturally the most famous example of poor preservation in pop culture. Why do you suppose archaeologists are so happy when they find a clay pot? Poring over that material with the backing of time and a broader understanding of context that we don’t have in the present is the job of researchers and historians, and they can only work with what they have. The importance of art isn’t discovered in its own time.
I don’t know whether there’s a special significance to anything that might have been lost. I’m sure there are mirrors that will pop up, but the truth is I don’t know if everything was kept. Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima series, has special hardware to make sure that his first game ( Akalabeth) is running at all times, simply because there is no guarantee anyone would ever bother preserving it. Some of you may have heard about the recent shutdown of ROM sites LoveROM and LoveRetro-places to get “pirated” video games-but what you may not know is that these sites are often the last bastion of availability for the games they host.
Media preservation is broken, and we need to discuss what that means.
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