The Great Search Engine Wars
A period of information destabilization. Twenty-three versions of the same past. The wars are not resolved in the Archive.
Chronology unresolved
Read in its original CDS context. Explanations, perspectives and unresolved details are preserved as written.
Dating remains disputed. Periodization varies between civic histories. Even the plural remains a subject of argument. Historians who use the singular are laughed at during conferences.
Civilian memory includes manipulated prices, political lies, forged identities, fabricated expert pages, synthetic voice copies, false disaster alerts, and — in at least one grandmother's account — the day you could no longer find a pancake recipe that was not trying to sell you something.
The Civic Network that followed is reasonable. It is also a decision about relevance. Both things can be true.