@RustyBertrand if you look into it, the library at Alexandria was in such a bad state when it burned, that the event wasn't considered important. Years of budget cuts, thievery, corrupt management, you know the drill.

But we did, in Usenet days, dare to think we could build a better one, with military tech said to withstand nuclear attack.

Never occurred to anyone it would be attacked and overrun by billionaires!