[benologist]

One of the interesting side effects of Microsoft buying GitHub is whatever we leave behind might just sit there for centuries or even millennia for historians and the curious and AI to explore. We kind of have this opportunity to make our own time capsules and maybe in a thousand years some enthusiast is like, wow I got this ancient project to compile!

[silverdemon]

Way back in the 90s, when everything was still in sepia, I thought all the Geocities and Angelfire personal websites would be doing this exact thing. Hanging around as a time capsule in perpetuity, accessible by future generations as easily as the current. It turns out eternity is approximately 10 years by this measure. Maybe Github will fare better.