It wasn't a record of the past. It was a live-stream of the world, transcribed into ASCII in real-time. He realized with a jolt of horror that "365TV" didn't mean a year of television. It meant the world was the show, and the script had already been written for the next 365 days.
The scroll bar hit the bottom. There was only one sentence left at the very end of the file, dated exactly one year from today: Download 365tv txt
Subject 7742 stops breathing. Heart rate: 104 BPM. It wasn't a record of the past