"You recovered... uh... everything?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herc...
Priapus had it goin' on! Reading the Priapeia for the first time is a treat...
Maybe something along these lines?
And of course, rm just unlinks, doesn’t actually delete, so even going a step further and recovering deleted content is hardly magic.
This is more like if, sometime in the future, they somehow successfully reconstructed a snapshot of our computers’ volatile memory by examining the power supply, or something ridiculous like that.
We’ll lose a lot of digital data simply because we won’t have the means to read it. CD-readers aren’t manufactured anymore in volume. It’s easy to imagine society in 40 years not having any CD readers handy but having a bunch of CDs they want to read. Now multiply that by all the funny storage formats we’ve created over the years.
On HDDs. On SSDs it'll lead to now-unusued space getting TRIMed which actually erases the blocks. Back to scraping the papyrus.