Reply to post: Re: It doesn't need to be runnable

Imagine surviving WW3, rebuilding computers, opening up GitHub's underground vault just to relive JavaScript

MacroRodent

Re: It doesn't need to be runnable

Don't forget art and music. The music should be both in the form of musical notation (when appropriate), uncompressed sound files, and at least part of it should be analogue recordings (like LP discs engraved on some ultra-durable material), so it can be played without having to reinvent advanced digital technology.

Else we get the situation described in one classic science fiction short story: isolated colonists on a distant planet had an extremely rosy view of human culture, because they were supplied with glowing encyclopedia descriptions of art and music, not examples of the art itself.

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