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Retroalgorithmics. Similar to the contemporary use of the term retrocomputing.

Would Paleoalgorithmics not just be the exploration of ancient algorithms?

Here we are taking modern code and teleporting it back in time. Or perhaps rather taking hardware back to the future. Clearly it should be called DeLoreanithmics.

Paleoalgorithmics sounds like something straight out of a Jodorowsky comicbook.

Archeocomputation is better imo. "Paleo-" typically implies geological timescales rather than decades.

Even if “paleo-” means “old” and “archaeo- / archeo-” means “ancient”?

In the sense they're used as English prefixes, paleo is many orders of magnitude older than archeo. Hence words like "paleoarchaeology", which starts around 10kya.

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