In April, Fallout creator Tim Cain published a video where he discussed the challenges facing game preservation. In that video, Cain noted that developer Interplay had ordered him to destroy his personal archive of the RPG's development, and many of the original materials used in the creation of the game had been lost. However, Cain explicitly noted that the Fallout source code was not among those lost materials – a detail that got seriously twisted as the story spread across the internet.
Rebecca Heineman, one of Interplay's co-founders, tried to correct the record by noting that the Fallout source code was never lost and that she, in fact, had a copy of it – a fact the internet misinterpreted as "Rebecca Heineman has saved the Fallout source code," which is itself not exactly the truth.
