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Humanity barely remembers them now. I do still remember Geocities and have a Hotmail address, so there’s a chance.

Let’s look further backwards at what we remember from the 19th century for an idea.

Do you remember the Holy Roman Empire?

Science as a term and profession was invented in the 19th century. Scientists are challenged still to this day, despite our evolution (an idea also proposed by Darwin in the 1800s).

The first vaccine (against rabies) was created by Louis Pasteur. I’m sure even back then there were government conspiracies surrounding its witchcraft abilities to control your brain.

The periodic table of elements, cocaine, chloroform, morphine, and aspirin were all created then. Thomas Edison was also busy inventing the phonograph, motion picture camera, and light bulb.

Cars and trains were invented. The word dinosaur was coined. The cardboard box and Swiss Army knife.

The works of Beethoven, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austin, Bram Stoker, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent Van Gogh, and others persist today.

We still play basketball, volleyball, boxing, and have modern Olympics every 4 years.

A lot of things persisted from 200 years in the past, so there’s a good chance Facebook and Twitter could survive 200 years into the future.

Even if they don’t exist in their current forms (which is extremely likely, given that they already are far from their original forms), the companies could survive like General Electric. They could be broken up like Standard Oil.

They may get bought out by a rival like Wrigley or they could go bankrupt and be taken over by the government like Amtrak.

But with such deep market penetration and so much revenue generated, it’s unlikely Facebook will be forgotten. For all we know, the Zuckerberg family fortune could be a dynasty.