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OP said "even if it's an archived version."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
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.
Im sure people will still be using Java 8 then, so its fine
And every single bank will still use COBOL
When you bump a 100 year old thread because the only answer was some guy telling OP to use different software.
Probably rate. I guess occasionally people link to old usenet posts...
And The Art of Computer Programming will finally be finished?
Only if people are still around in 100 years.
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.
I have to wonder the medium we will be using then. Will it be a heads up display in our eyes by then?
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?
A lot of people still read the Bible and other religious texts outside of English class.
People still read a lot of classics.
Tons of legal documents, laws that haven't changed, and other bureaucratic documentation is still referenced regularly.
Pretty sure there are architecture plans for things like the Hoover Dam that are still used for making maintenance decisions.
Historians sure look back at old documents, not to mention people who do genealogy and other family history stuff.
While the average person may not actively seek out old text because new content on the internet is the current hotness, there is still a ton of information that people who are working jobs or doing research need that is over a century old and that is the kind of information that is comparable to something like stack overflow. It will more likely be copied and retained through something like archive.org than the original website, but as long as there is a chance that someone might need it or someone has retaining it as a hobby, it will still be around.
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)