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Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by paulyy_y »

crazygringo wrote: post #44

Just put it on your own domain and keep it there while you're alive. Renewing it is not that hard, especially with auto-renew on a credit card. And make sure the Internet Archive indexes it. When people find old links that don't resolve anymore, IA is where they go. Don't overthink this. Nothing lasts forever, but right now I'd say IA is the most likely repository to survive over the longest term, certainly in compar…

IA has been under attack and has gone down for weeks recently. At this point it's a bit silly to place much faith in it as a perpetual store.

Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by yellowsir »

anotherhue wrote: post #13

I wonder how much data you could store if you turned the last ten pages into very dense QR codes that together formed a compressed tar? The ink degradation might be a concern. And it would require some expertise to reassemble.

QRcodes are unrestricted in size. it's just a quetion of resolution and redundancy...

Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by crazygringo »

paulyy_y wrote: post #61
crazygringo wrote: post #44

Just put it on your own domain and keep it there while you're alive. Renewing it is not that hard, especially with auto-renew on a credit card. And make sure the Internet Archive indexes it. When people find old links that don't resolve anymore, IA is where they go. Don't overthink this. Nothing lasts forever, but right now I'd say IA is the most likely repository to survive over the longest term, certainly in compar…

IA has been under attack and has gone down for weeks recently. At this point it's a bit silly to place much faith in it as a perpetual store.

That being said, it's still more likely to stay accessible over the long-term than anything else.

Seeing as that's its mission and it's got the longest track record of it.

Any even if it fails someday as an organization, its repository is the one most likely to be maintained by a new organization with the same mission.

Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by [deleted] »

generalizations wrote: post #31

Ultimately you have to give a human direct responsibility for it; or in your case, a series of humans. I'd suggest you do buy a domain, but set up a legal/financial framework so that a long-standing law firm will keep up the payments for N decades (or for as long as the firm & its successors exist).

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Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by smugma »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #18

Put it on Blogger from Google. Has been around since 1999. There are some huge blogs/websites hosted on Blogger. They make money with Adsense, and it turn Google does to. Google has killed a lot of products but in my opinion they will keep this. There are just so many blogs, little and small, some who have posts dating from '99 even, still online.

I (wrongly?!) assumed that Google had shut down Blogger years ago and that this was sarcasm, using Google’s history of killing services to highlight the folly of relying on a commercial service to still be around years or decades later.

Poe’s law at its best.

Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by tmountain »

lambdaba wrote: post #36
tmountain wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet archive seems to continually be getting into legally precarious situations. I wouldn’t bet on it staying around for too long.

there is no way we will let the Internet Archive die, absolutely no way

I hope that’s true, but who actually has agency over its existence and how much control do we actually have?

Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by appplication »

gmuslera wrote: post #29

100 years is too long. Maybe not because the company or institution where you will host it directly or indirectly will vanish (the Lindy effect matters choosing one), but because we, as internet and its users, moved on. The changes are accelerating, in the last very few years AIs are being used as search engines and providing content, new generations doesn't read so much (as they consume things like Instagram or TikT…

Indeed, I would be very surprised if the concept of visiting a webpage is even a thing in 100 years. Perhaps in some archival sense, but I really do not think the average person will have any experiences accessing any variation of “somewebsite.com” at all.

You cannot fight change, and you cannot fight your own impermanence. And so what if it does last 100 years, then what? Should it last 200? 1000? 1,000,000? Just be, and be happy. Live, laugh, love is wiser advice than you’d think.

Re: Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

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Post by IshKebab »

philistine wrote: post #54
kylebenzle wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use your phone+ an app to scan it, just because you can't figure that out doesn't mean people in 100 years are going to be morons.

Are you 100% convinced that QR codes will be common enough in a 100 years for common people to figure it out? I’m not.

Yes I am 100% convinced (barring apocalypse etc.)

Would you know what to do with a record? That's 150 year old technology. If not you know how to look up the information hopefully?

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