Alana: Alfred, given that this is your favorite part of the museum, maybe you can guide us around?
Alfred: Sure, … what is your name again?
Alana: Alana.
Alfred: OK, Alana. Well, as I said before, people used to hold information on paper, and then shiny disks. But later, they moved almost everything to machines which for some reason was called “the cloud.”

Alfred: Sometime after the start of the old 21st century, something bad happened, which destroyed a lot of these machines. We do not know what… because all information was on the machines. We call it “The Event,” we could not find a better name.
Alfred: It was chaos for a long time, there was not even electricity. People fought each other for basic things, like food.

Alfred: After some time, people stopped fighting and became organized, using information we could read from the disks from before the Event and some of the surviving machines. Nobody even knew what the date was, so a new calendar was started with the year 1945.
Zhang: Why that year?
Alfred: We know a big war had ended in that year… Our war had also ended, it seemed a good choice.