It is unlikely any web browser survive to parse this kind of web page.
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
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#712Found a good charity and make sure bylaws require to keep the original family page up.
The oldest UK charity seems 1400+ year old.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/voluntary/page/0,7896,61...
Could be expensive.
Or, create a generation skipping trustworthy similar bylaws. That requires the you put in enough money to make administration worthwhile.
But I feel the question is “will there still be grandchildren in 300 years”. It’s not a given.
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#713IPFS
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#714Some ideas I don't see yet:
* Launch a satellite into space powered by a fission reactor with excessive capacity. Plan the trajectory so that in 500 years it crashes back to Earth with an inscribed quartz tablet.
* Commit a terrible crime like JFK assassination or Unibomber and make it your manifesto.
* Genetically modify your children (as an embryo) to contain the relevant information in non-coding regions of their DNA.
* Sneak into a fissile waste containment center and put a marble etching in there.
Re: Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
#715Other comments have given ways to physically archive the webpage. Continually hosting it is a much trickier endeavor. Beyond just keeping the servers up, technologies will shift such that eventually html webpages, servers that talk using tcp/ip, datacenters that connect via fiber cables, etc will all be deprecated. That said, if we have a very liberal definition of the word "website" to include any successor technolo…
The basic underlying technology didn't change that much. HTML is still HTML. Ditto for TCP/IP.
These are going to work long after other elements of technology change. The newest tech are going to change more often than the foundation.
Re: Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
#716Some ideas I don't see yet: * Launch a satellite into space powered by a fission reactor with excessive capacity. Plan the trajectory so that in 500 years it crashes back to Earth with an inscribed quartz tablet. * Commit a terrible crime like JFK assassination or Unibomber and make it your manifesto. * Genetically modify your children (as an embryo) to contain the relevant information in non-coding regions of their…
More realistically:
* Get a building named after you at Oxford or some other long lived college.
* Create it as a very well hidden easter egg in the linux codebase.
* Just create a family heirloom with the relevant info inside. Pass it down.
* Many varieties of trees live long times with the longest currently living trees more than 4,000 years old. Plant them or inscribe cleverly.
Re: Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
#717Try Github.
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#718AWS S3
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#719Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Organized religions are some of the very few institutions that survived for thousands of years with little change. Which organized religion are you referring to here? All the big ones have changed immensely.
At least, the Torah has survived with minimal change.
Well we don’t have the autographs for any holy text past a certain point, so I’m not sure that’s true. But with faith it doesn’t matter.
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#720Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can walk the street of Rome and read inscriptions that are 2000 years old, they will either be close enough to any latin language or you may have some notions of latin yourself. My point being that english is probably much more significant culturally today than latin ever was. The chances that it will be some sort of forgotten language are pretty slim (though I am sure it will have evolved). Now the real question…
Yes, inscriptions like "long live the LX regiment" or whatever graffiti. (Kind of joking.) Given the extent of the Roman Empire, I think Latin achieved some pretty significant cultural status. Afaik, Catholic mass stopped being in latin in the 1960's. That's ~3rd century to 20th century. So in use roughly 3x as long as English? (Not a specialist.)
And given that something like half of the words in your post descend from latin, we might even regard english as a kind of daughter language. Of course I'm painting in overly broad strokes for the sake of conversation.