Ancestor def: a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.

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okay, I'm in the wrong. I see. UGH, I think I'm getting dementia.

I'd love to know my "descendants" views on politics in their day.

But our descendants might.

I wrote a senior thesis on James VI of Scotland on his planning to ascend to become James I of England. Looking at the aged & protected under glass, those contemporary hand written documents from 1602-1602!- remains a goose bump producing memory.

Heck ya, those future historians, sociologists, political scientists and linguists are gonna love this treasure trove. Assuming the planet & civil society survives the next 200 years.

At some point, our digital history is going to be telling (providing we didn't bomb ourselves back to the stone age).

Tracing all the internet names that one person could have used since 1996.

Let alone all the BBS, IRC, yahoo groups and trying to match internet name to group to a specific human.



And for the record, future researcher, in the early 1980s, I shipped back 20# of river flood basin rocks from Arizonia. They have been planted allll over the US Midwest. Those rocks aren't local rocks.

...wonderful, wonderful book on that very subject...

After looking at the original source materials & the allowed photocopies, for a year, I was burnt out on them. But since it is a long time past, it might be worth a read. I no longer have those notes & papers, I carried them enough in boxes around the Midwest.

...it uses as much energy as the entire nation of India. Maybe eliminating the internet will be one of the "sacrifices" we have to make in order to save the planet's environment. We can always use snail letters, and buy our porn in old-fashioned magazines...and really, does it--the internet--serve any other useful function? Doing away with the internet will no doubt be inconvenient to business, but hey--maybe it will usher in a new era of a more relaxed pace to life, like in the Good Olde Days. I'd put a sarcasm smilie down, but I'm only about 70% kidding...

Or, we'll be living like the 1880s, who knows. It really all depends on our elections, lol.