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That stuff have a proven shelf life, compared to all the digital alternatives.
As a bonus, write it by hand or get a robot to mimic your handwriting. I believe your grand children (if they still can read handwriting) will get a small glimpse of your personality.
M-DISCs were created with the intent to store data for long periods of time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC The company claim is 1000 years of storage life. Independent testers have rated it for up to several hundred years. The main drawback is ensuring that DVD / Blu-ray readers still exist that far into the future.
You're asking a technical question, which is the wrong way to go here. 1. Make sure you have all the faces in the photos labeled in a way that can be accessed in the future. Old physical photos without the names written on the back are essentially worthless, as nobody knows who they are. Full names, and how everyone is related, perhaps a bit of story is important. 2. Make sure your kids are interested in this stuff,…
You don't need to store your data. It's already there in PI. Find the location and pass it to your descendants.
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You're asking a technical question, which is the wrong way to go here. 1. Make sure you have all the faces in the photos labeled in a way that can be accessed in the future. Old physical photos without the names written on the back are essentially worthless, as nobody knows who they are. Full names, and how everyone is related, perhaps a bit of story is important. 2. Make sure your kids are interested in this stuff,…
Great answer/comment. But how will you ensure the pictures (physical artifacts) survive? In other words, how old is the oldest picture you have now?
We have photographs that are 100 years old. I have floppy disks from the 1980s that can still be read. Books from the 1800s. Tools over 100 years old.