It is better to remember Dennis Ritchie instead: Humble man, great engineer, brilliant in his designs.
Burning resources to memorialize the past we only see through rose colored glasses of naive youth is vanity.
Biology is self selecting and that's all that's happening here. There's no intention or future value. It's plain old signal attenuation and entropy going on; memory is fading as those who experienced it churn out of existence.
A species still escaping banal worship of history ends up avoiding progress.
No one is forcing you to admire Steve Jobs.