[HN Gopher] Century Scale Storage
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       Century Scale Storage
        
       Author : worik
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-12-11 18:27 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (lil.law.harvard.edu)
        
       | readthenotes1 wrote:
       | Reader mode was the only way for me to read the article.
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       | I sure hope most web pages don't last 100 years
        
       | bassp wrote:
       | I'm surprised that this piece mentioned Microsoft, but didn't
       | touch on Microsoft's solution to this problem: project silica
       | (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-
       | sil...), which stores data on etched pieces of quartz glass that
       | are _supposed_ to be able reliably store data for thousands a of
       | years. Of course, you still need to solve the dispersal problem,
       | and need to make sure that the knowledge of how to read the glass
       | tablets is passed down, but hey, nothing's perfect!
        
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