Social Hallucinations: History 2.0

I have always loved history. It is something fascinating in making the sense out of past events and finding out how those have defined nations and societies. History - the true discourse of the past, that takes past to explain present and get a slight understanding of future. Our history is something that shapes us not only as nations but also as individuals. It is a part of our "we consciousness".
That history is changing today - it becomes personalized. The stories about big events are told through the eyes of real people. Events have no longer an effect on humanity, events influence life of Alice and John.
We save and distribute our history online. In pictures and videos.

Like ERA project, that is online space with individual stories of people who stood up against terror and humiliation of fascism during WWII. The stories told by people who experienced Holocaust are very important in XXI century when increasing number of people denies Holocaust took place and WWII seems like a kind of fantasy for today's teenagers. "The protagonists and eyewitnesses will disappear in the next years. Soon, there will be no other testimonies of the happenings apart from those having been collected, recorded, recounted and written down. The value of eyewitness interviews is unique. No book or film can replace the opportunity of watching eyewitnesses tell their stories of resistance and independent decision to do so."

Or like this 10 minutes video from YouTube that tells the Polish history.

There is also vast amounts of personal stories created and saved online. We save our histories in pictures, on blogs and forums. We create not only the collective picture of history, but we also save the history of our times for the future generations in form of our experiences, emotions, not just numbers and dates. History becomes open to amateurs and it gets additional dimension - emotional. It gets it closest ever to other disciplines as sociology and philosophy and moves it always from historiography approach based on dry facts and dates.

We share, store out stories of the big events. Like April 16th archive documenting tragic events on the Virginia Tech tragedy of April 16, 2007.

We get even more personal by passion on our everyday stories in blogs and collective projects like those projects from UK: History Matters, Pass it On and Your History Here.

Or Yahoo's Time Capsule that is going to reopen in 2020 and reply all submissions it get from people all over the world.

We create the new Youniverse history facilitated by multimedia and Internet. We become ubiquitous and available 24/7. We share our knowledge about history and our personal histories via our networks and communities, demonstrating history is a story tale of herd. The question is, will the history saved on fiber connections survive? Will it be passed on as a immortal meme through new connections driven by links as a new form of story telling?