Hi, I'm Patchwork Sofa. This blog is for #WeirdTheories - things that this anonymous blogger finds interesting, regardless of context.

Here's one: The vast majority of the current Internet is not backed up in a way that will preserve it for future generations. Which means that the last 20 or 30 years of its influence on culture will likely be misconstrued by future cyber-historians, because they won't have the data they need to do a proper analysis of it...

... if you take this to the extreme, what would you think of a culture like ours if the Internet wasn't even known to exist? If it kept getting mentioned in manuscripts, but no trace of it could be found? We would appear to be an age of sudden telepathy, I think. Future historians would be baffled as to how Dawkins-flavored memes and memeplexes suddenly started to spread so much quicker.

What would they point to next for this? If current opinions are stable, there's a good chance they'd point towards colleges as the digital Eurocity responsible for the memetic black plague's high infection count.