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Re: Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

#11
I suggest you start converting your writing into short digestible Tiktok dance moves...

Joking aside, paper is resilient. Share your digital writings everywhere, then make paper copies that you can donate to libraries. If this fails, that's fine. You won't be around to see it.

Re: Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

#12

20 years - google doc with backups in your email and wherever your taxes and medical stuff is, and printed copy with your home records 40 years - print and bind the google doc in 20 years, store it with their stuff when they leave the house. 60 years - publish the book buy a bunch of copies and distribute 100 years - it needs to be a very good book

Individual books can last much longer than a hundred years.

Worst case, engrave it on a clay tablet and bury it in a bog.

Re: Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

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20 years - google doc with backups in your email and wherever your taxes and medical stuff is, and printed copy with your home records 40 years - print and bind the google doc in 20 years, store it with their stuff when they leave the house. 60 years - publish the book buy a bunch of copies and distribute 100 years - it needs to be a very good book

Individual books can last much longer than a hundred years. Worst case, engrave it on a clay tablet and bury it in a bog.

For high reliability, I think I would suggest engraving it into a low reactivity nonvaluable metal, perhaps titanium sheet would be a good choice. Couple that with a backup on printed archival paper using carbon toner or an art-grade ink or dye. Between the two of them they will probably resist damage for 100 years or so.

Brass or bronze would also be a decent option, but you'd have to make the text larger for it to be readable with corrosion. Perhaps braille would be an interesting choice there.

And ceramics are a great choice - clay tablets, when fired, can last millenia.

I think between the three of a metal sheet, clay tablet, and paper book, one of the three is almost certain to survive a century.

Re: Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

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You might be interested in Arweave or IPFS: Arweave network is like Bitcoin, but for data: A permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger. [0] The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a decentralized protocol, hypermedia, and peer-to-peer (P2P) network for distributed file storage and sharing. The shadow libraries Anna's Archive and Library Genesis host books via IPFS. [1] [0] https://www.arweave.org/ [1] ht…

If I remember correctly IPFS alone won't guarantee that the file will be around.

Re: Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

#16

I suggest you start converting your writing into short digestible Tiktok dance moves... Joking aside, paper is resilient. Share your digital writings everywhere, then make paper copies that you can donate to libraries. If this fails, that's fine. You won't be around to see it.

You've made my day. On the other hand it's quite bold to say that Tiktok dances will last 100 years. The videos there are 30-40 seconds long matching viewers attention span, so using simple math we can extrapolate that in 100 years they will last 0.03ns at max

Re: Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

#17

I suggest you start converting your writing into short digestible Tiktok dance moves... Joking aside, paper is resilient. Share your digital writings everywhere, then make paper copies that you can donate to libraries. If this fails, that's fine. You won't be around to see it.

Yes and… may i suggest turning the website into a religion… then it may last several thousand years
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