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Software is ephemeral. Very little of it lasts for long. And if it does, it's legacy banking or some ossified terrible thing people are afraid to touch - not s
by echelon 4d ago
Software is ephemeral.
Very little of it lasts for long. And if it does, it's legacy banking or some ossified terrible thing people are afraid to touch - not something revered.
Every piece of software today will be rewritten. By 2100 much of it will be dead and gone. Like punch cards that have rotted away.
- card_zero 4d agoGames
- purpleflashing 4d agoI share the sentiment as a gamer but according to preservationists the majority of games have already been lost to history.
- mlyle 3d agoIs this really true? Or are we counting like the games kids made in a computer lab somewhere. Or there's this 87% number, but it's based on "no longer a legal way to buy it," not that it's not archived/preserved: https://gamehistory.org/87percent/ https://gamehistory.org/87percent/
- coldbrewed 4d agoYour bank's mainframe would like to know your location.
- tjwebbnorfolk 4d agosurvivorship bias. while something like 20% of code in production today runs on mainframes, that probably represents <0.1% of all code ever written
- OutOfHere 4d agoGood software runs for decades without maintenance. And by 2100, most of us will be gone.