inscribe it on a marble and bury it.
I said this because the semi conductor tech we have today will be extinct and invaluable 500 years from now. if you do it electronically.
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
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#52Ignoring all the issues with decoding any message after 500 years... Semiconductor based devices will stop working by then due to diffusion. Maybe a large conductive structure that creates EM backscatter/interference that encodes your website? Or perhaps something that attracts lightning strikes and uses them to emit a burst of information.
Also, if your website really does last and remains decodeable that long, and if it is an exceptional occurrence, then it could also become a target for destruction if the winds of culture shift in some way.
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warn...
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#53crave it on a stone, tested and proven by our ancestors
... with the same message in a bunch of different languages. It will be become a future Rosetta Stone.
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#54Build pyramids low tech giant physical structures that survive the test of time
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#55Hosting isn't so much the issue. You need to create something worth keeping around for 500 years. If you succeed, people will make sure it's available somehow.
Something 500 years old is by definition worth keeping, alone for historians.
I'm emptying out a storage bin with 25+ year old stuff that begs to differ. Storing things has a cost, actually storing things so they last, far more so.
Even historians curate and don't keep everything.
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#56Start a diversified annuity that funds webmasters by contract to perform standard update/migration/backup/payment tasks. Give the annuity to a college, bank, or family to own/manage it based on your bylaws.
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#57Write a pernicious AGI whose only goal is to keep the page online, whatever systems it has to subvert (or in extreme cases, turn into paperclips).
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#58Build pyramids no seriously, build low tech giant physical structures that survive the test of time
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#59Just put it on myspace. That information will never completely go away.
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#60Host the content/pages on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/
There's a pretty good chance their collection (and possibly the organization themselves) will be around in 500 yrs. 1 EB in 100 yrs will be trivial to host (probably the price of a loaf of bread), and your content will be accessible by anyone with a copy of that archive.