Vol 01 - Part 01 - Page 13
chaves on March 17, 2009
That’s what happens when the wrong evidence survives the stress of time. Our characters aren’t ignorants, archeologists and historians have just supplied them with the wrong information. Information they think is legitimate. Because sometimes is hard to tell when you have the real thing or just the leftovers of a medieval historical reenactment party with a metal band involved. Radiocarbon dating won’t help you here. Surviving fragments of the book “The Great Book of Stupid History†won’t either.
chaves at 11:18AM, May 16, 2009
Hah, didn't know that. We're totally screwed now then.
taltamir at 10:49AM, May 16, 2009
Don't forget when its also illegal for archivists to do their job... the library of congress has been complaining that it has been illegal for them to archive almost anything since the DMCA of 1999.
chaves at 11:50PM, May 13, 2009
When a society can't recover the data stored in devices just 10 years old because the new technology is incompatible with the old one, well, you have a slight problem with History and Legacy.
Kristen Gudsnuk at 1:30PM, April 29, 2009
wow... I love the idea that someday the memory of our time period will be just as warped and fabled as the medieval era... it blows my mind!
chaves at 6:06AM, April 8, 2009
Finally! Someone that knows his history!
harkovast at 2:54AM, April 8, 2009
The medieval era was truely awesome. When King Elvis battled the Dark Prince Ozzy and a race of strange beetles with bowl hair cuts ate liverpool before going across the atlantic and infecting the population of America with a plague that sent them into a wild mania. Yep, history is freakin sweet!
giovanni at 5:29AM, March 23, 2009
someone got their time era mixed up!
chaves at 4:14AM, March 19, 2009
This was just for humour's sake and to explain a bit the kind of world they live in. Once they're out the museum we probably won't hear about this subject again.
SlideStudios at 3:56AM, March 19, 2009
excellent. is the history going to play a bigger part or was it just a side note for this page?
chaves at 1:19AM, March 19, 2009
Glad you like it. It's funny to wonder what will survive us. If there's still science in the civilization after us they'll be probably pretty damn confused. After all, what's exactly "our civilization"? When does it start? The Medieval Europe, the Illustration period, the atomic, the digital era? Maybe we should start thinking about carving our interpretation of our own history on stone soon. Lots of carvings. Future historians will thank the favour ;)
repoman at 9:05PM, March 18, 2009
Great stuff. Love the bit about the misrepresentation of history. Actually, I have a master's degree in history and this is the exact stuff we used to discuss in seminars. All of history is ultimately misrepresentation and therefore open to interpretation by successive generations.