You're an archeologist from a future civilization. What would you think of our civilization based on the Internet?
Companies had copystriked all the arts and knowledge to hoard it into their now dead servers to get profit from subscription services only, so the only peak at humanity now are blogs, memes, and random posts.
Well after so long there's nothing left of the fragile silicon storage mediums, so as far as we can tell civilization basically ended in the late 90s as everyone moved to the mysterious ".com" which we assume to be a euphemism for death.
It'll be remembered a dark age when the lights go out and all the disks rot. And, if I know archaeologists, they'll call our data centers ritual centers or temples.
Otherwise there will be disbelief at the inexplicably sophisticated engineering, and how we could have achieved it all with no written records. Probably it was all just ancient aliens.
and how we could have achieved it all with no written records.
Our religion prevented using doc strings or code comments of any kind. What little software we had that actually worked correctly probably was aliens, come to think of it...
They'll be just like "haha wow they just stared at a screen with a video of people fucking. That's so primitive. I'm glad I was born in a time where the AI/VR Sensory Deprivation Orgasmotron Chamber exists! I can't imagine having to pull on my dick with my hand like that anytime I want to nut. That sounds like so much work!"
The humans from the mid 1900s and early to mid 2000s are so fucking stupid, and had a drop in their IQ for the one for the sole reason that people before them knew they were fucked up and desperate, but these ones are totally delusional, unhinged and believe in propaganda like fact, and that they romanticize working as a cog in this manipulative, filth-ridden machinery. Also, fuck them for not doing anything to stop the evil corporates from polluting this planet.
lol, as if the internet would survive long enough to be studied archeologically. most digital media lasts 10 years, 20 tops. future archeologists will get whatever was worth laser-etching into a sapphire disc and they'll just have to live with that.