I kind of felt like it was the 90s again and I was seeing these weird "andre the giant has a posse" stickers in random places.

that's probably why I made this bad art and got all nostalgiay about how weird thigns used to be as a procrastination tactic

Following that line, if we didn't need to *preserve* the code, we'd inevitably leave behind all of the tooling we have for the task, such as git, code editors, linting, formatting, etc. Viewing code in the future could be less common, like viewing hexdumps today.

Cassian Andor prison escapee

I read a bunch of Michener when I was around middle school age (my grandmother had loads of Michener books, Hawaii, Texas, the one about the hippy kids) and completely forgot about them until one day deep into adulthood when I suddenly realized I hadn't heard anyone refer to Michener for decades.