[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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| readthenotes1 wrote:
| Reader mode was the only way for me to read the article.
|
| 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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