Thanks everyone so far for the feedback! 😀
I think hover, that there's a little misunderstanding.
So far, some of you rather had a negative opinion.
What I was wondering, at the very heart, was :
Why is knowledge of the past steadily increasing, rather than decreasing?
Normally, some would should expect the latter rather.
Just think of the MT-32, the Innovation Sound Standard sound card etc.
In the last 10, 15 years I learned about so much stuff that I haven't even heard in the 90s.
And I had been there! 😀
Also, I won't buy that "there's the internet now" thing.
That's way too simple.
The internet and the internet archive had been around since the 90s.
And as far as internet access is concerned, the early 2000s were no different from what we have now.
Also, mailboxes (BBSes) and online services like CompuServe were around even earlier,
with their roots dating back to the 70s.
My father, if memory served, had an X.25 access that allowed him to access databases all around the world in the late 70s/early 80s, already.
But even then, the information available about 70s era technology was lesser than its today.
So if all was a just geek-thing, then why did they had less information on their finger tips back then,
than the average person has now?
I mean, they literally worked with said technology when it was current.
These early geeks/users sat at the source, essentially.
Early online-services and BBSes were all about the current stuff (of their time).
Or in other words: Technology/services of the past were meant to provide
information about technology of the same past.
Yet, today's people still have some how access to a lot of vintage information.
Despite the fact that this information has (almost) no practical use anymore.
And in a few years, maybe, even more information of the past is being unrevealed?
Maybe we will read of early computer prototypes and inventors we have never ever heard before yet?
Sorry for my poor English, but that's what I was referring to.
The history books seem to be getting more and more complete as time wents on.
Someone should think that things are getting forgotten rather as time passes,
but the situation is much more positive than it should.
Human beings do an extraordinary good job at preserving and keeping things together. 😃👍
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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