This is why I fed conflicted about the idea of dynamic media replacing papers, textbooks, etc.

I routinely read papers that are 30 or 40 years old. When 30-40 year old software is easily runnable, it’s a wonderful surprise. twitter.com/spiralganglion…

Relevant 👉 The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015: vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_…

“We discuss the problem of running today’s software decades, centuries, or even millennia into the future.”

I meant to call out the great work that @internetarchive is doing here. twitter.com/utopiah/status…

Also, @codefrau’s SqueakJS has been super helpful to me: squeak.js.org