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We’re about to enter a Digital Dark Age, but what does that mean?

As online archives disappear, they’re taking our history with them

We’re about to enter a Digital Dark Age, but what does that mean?
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14/03/2025 12:15 ‧ 5 months ago | StarsInsider

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The internet is truly a vast library filled with history, where the present and past merge to form everything we know of humanity. Between every conversation, every photo, and every article, the World Wide Web has it all. But it won’t for very long. Indeed, the digital landscape as we know it is crumbling down, and almost everything that makes up our world's archive is going down with it. With each expired link, deleted account, and lost server, the internet is quietly disintegrating.

This is known as a Digital Dark Age, where our technology becomes digital voids where pieces of our collective memory used to be. What is the cause of this strange new era? And how do we reverse it? Click through this gallery to find out.

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