This is chompy.net, a part of Spaceship No Future.

In surfaces, perfection is less interesting. For instance, a page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains. Because the tea stains add a bit of history. It’s a historical attitude. After all, texts of ancient Greeks come to us in wreckage and I admire that, the combination of layers of time that you have when looking at a papyrus that was produced in the third century BC and then copied and then wrapped around a mummy for a couple hundred years and then discovered and put in a museum and pieced together by nine different gentlemen and put back in the museum and brought out again and photographed and put in a book. All those layers add up to more and more life. You can approximate that in your own life. Stains on clothing.

IN 1902, SADAKICHI HARTMANN ATTEMPTED TO TRANSPORT A THEATER FULL OF PEOPLE ACROSS A VAST OCEAN USING ONLY PERFUME AND AN ELECTRIC FAN.

Many aspects of history are ephemeral. Things like silver cups and letters from famous people often get saved. Photographs like a person hoeing a soybean field or the story of someone who grew 30-pound watermelons only to discover the public wants personal sized watermelons are less likely to be kept. If future generations are to understand how we made decisions, then they need a fuller story.