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Writing for the BBC, the novelist Will Self recently claimed that young people are becoming more and more nostalgic. The Internet has a lot to do with this, he suggested. 小说家威尔•塞尔夫近日在其为BBC所撰写的一篇文章中称，年轻人的怀旧情结日益浓厚。他表示这一现象与互联网有很大的关系。 It is certainly true that the Internet has changed the past and will continue to do so, but are young people really more nostalgic? 的确，互联网已改变了过去，今后也仍将如此，但年轻人是不是真的越来越怀旧了呢？ History is an array of invisible events, hidden in darkness. Archaeological evidence and the written language were previously our only insights into what once happened. The invention of the printing press was a major milestone in our ability to engage with history. 历史是掩身黑暗之中的一系列无形事件的集合。考古发现与文字曾是我们洞察历史的唯一渠道。印刷术的发明成为我们与历史“对话”的一座重要里程碑。 The Internet, though, appears to be set to surpass even that. A millennium from now, we will no longer be forced to interpret strange languages in order to comprehend our world–the Internet will provide a window into the past, consisting of tiny units of digital data. 然而，互联网似乎后来者居上。一千年以后，我们将不再为了了解自己身处的世界而被迫解释那些陌生语言——到那时，互联网将提供一个窥知过去的窗口，历史则由微小的数据信息组成。 | 
