Archive history
What to do when we want to look at our computing history in a live fashion? We can archive all the current software and run in a (complex) future sandbox. We see this for even more ancient systems, which are emulated. We then also need ancient software to run for reasons of functionality and compatibility.
The question of archiving and preservation is whether it should be extended to all software. That means inclusion of the virus/malware/... software that will attack the archive and content while running in a sandbox. Maybe even an accidental inclusion of malware in the archive can create interesting scenarios for future archivists, historians and digital archeologists. We may dumb down if we do not preserve the entire history and the historians/archeologists get the wrong impressions of what actually happened.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
