There are broadly two types of sources we identify when studying history: narrative sources and relics […] The former are things designed to convey something to future generations, […] Relics [sic] the other hand were not intended for future generations. They do not have a “transmission intent”. While they often hold true to the beliefs of the person producing them they tend to have little to no large-scale bias in recording history. They are also excellent records equivalent to oral history and can serve as both primary sources and secondary sources that are closer to an original event than subsequent scholarly literature.
~ Venkatram Harish Belvadi, from Relics of the future
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I’ve now been typing away on this blog for fifteen years and what I have posted here has varied wildly in that time.
While it has occurred to me to wonder what happens to the blog after I die, it had never occurred to me to wonder if there might be actual value to historians here.
I’m honestly not sure what to do with that. Do I keep posting? Do I close the garage door?
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