Doubt it. The way Web companies work, they eventually enter an entshitification phase and then die out. Zero chance stackoverflow last until the end of the century.
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I used to work for a very old company that still has digitized copies of many, if not most, of its oldest records available for reference. It was surreal looking at internal technical documentation for things that stopped existing 50 years ago
OP said "even if it's an archived version." But sure continue to push your emotional state onto an otherwise unrelated conversation
Who downvoted this? The person you replied to didn't read the post.
People are doubtful, but I read a post on Gamefaqs from like, 25 years ago and they went through plenty of enshittification. I look forward to sharing the ancient texts with my great grandkids on how to get the best sword in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
The mods will by then be replaced with bots that remove every new question by default because it was probably answered like 65 years ago and if not it's not a good question.
As long as it posts the original link and never closes the original... I'm okay with that.
Probably rare. I guess occasionally people link to old usenet posts...
Somehow, C will still be around.
More likely that AI will be answering questions drawing on training sets containing forum posts that are over 100 years old.
The AI: "Question marked as duplicate."
And The Art of Computer Programming will finally be finished?
As AI keeps progressing, it's more than likely that humans will no longer code anything in the near future.
You'll start a conversation with your AI, describe what you are trying to achieve, and the AI can write and debug code faster and better than you ever could.
You're down voted, but you're right.
Naysayers are looking at AI capabilities today. Not AI capabilities in 10-20 years.
AI accelerates AI development/advancement.
At some point AI will be able to train itself, improvise, and even experiment with solutions to find the optimal ones. I wonder how long it will take.
I have to wonder the medium we will be using then. Will it be a heads up display in our eyes by then?
Maybe we will just share a hive mind, Borg-style.
Unlikely, even if there isn't an AI-related end of history. How often do you read anything over a hundred years old, outside of English class? Have you ever read a technical document over a hundred years old in your life?
Given some software is still dependent on stuff written like 20 years ago, it wouldn't surprise me if even a small part of some future program relies on century old code
We (in much of Europe at least) rely on train lines and sewers laid out over 100 years ago and we refer to plans made then, so I think there's a high chance there's software around in 100 years which still works so never gets replaced (or gets upgraded but is the same at the core, I bet windows still has task manager barely modified)
.... Maps?
Plat maps, land use maps, survey maps....etc can date to the early 1900's and late 1800's. Preserved & converted to digital form for country-side USGIS visualizations and mapping.
Or architectural blueprints, or sewer/water line diagrams/maps. Electrical & communication lines are approaching that age. Transportation infrastructure and diagrams.
We reference documents & technical knowledge that's 30-50 years old, sometimes 70-80 years old right now in our industry. Mathematics knowledge that's well over 100 years old.
There are countless examples of important things that are as old as the industry itself.
It's essentially guaranteed that we will be referencing technical documentation and design and knowledge that is over 100 years old once this industry is old enough.