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🧵1/3 🎮 What if cultural history disappears because no one is allowed to preserve it? Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, reflects on the fragility of games, media, and cultural memory in his essay in VANISHING CULTURE, from the #InternetArchive. Read it here: archive.org/details/vani...

2/3 Mechner recounts discovering that even major archives can vanish, forcing creators to rely on enthusiasts & chance discoveries to recover lost history. When “historical oblivion is the default, not the exception,” what survives is often what individuals save, not what institutions guarantee.

3/4 Today, games, magazines, and digital works can disappear overnight, taking decades of creative history with them. Mechner argues that archivists, libraries, and preservation networks are essential to keeping cultural memory alive.