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> 100 years is too long. The Long Now Foundation would like to have a word.
The Long Now Foundation has existed for less than 30 years. They have some lofty goals, but they're just goals.
It's not like they sell web hosting that I'm trying to get OP to use.
It allows you to write public blogs/ideas and is hosted on Github. Users can view it without logging in. In theory, if Github doesn't close down, your content will exist permanently.
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…
There is really no "for as long as you live persistent hosting"
Self-hosting: ISPs change, people move house, power black-outs take servers offline
Hosted: providers change policies, are bought out, go bust, payment details change
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…
> Just put it on your own domain and keep it there while you're alive There is really no "for as long as you live persistent hosting" Self-hosting: ISPs change, people move house, power black-outs take servers offline Hosted: providers change policies, are bought out, go bust, payment details change
If you use something like Google Sites with your own domain, which is used by a lot of paying corporations, there's a good chance you'll never need to touch it again until you die, except for using some credit card information maybe.
Your problem isnt so much "content storage" as it is "addressing". For example, you could carve the info into a rock, and instruct an immediate descendent to maintain it, and have them tell their children, etc. Or create a religion that maintains The Rock. But lets imagine you found a crystalline web server that ran off sun light and was backed by rock storage. Who is to be assured that the https scheme will still ex…
Quietly create a retrovirus which will write your data into the DNA of every living human.
Travel to a secluded part oft he world with plenty of sunshine. Bury a time capsule containing a Rasberry pi with a long antenna and solar panel sticking out of the ground behind a big pile of shrubbery.
But I suggest not just one stone, but build many hills on large piece of land and place them to form giant QR code, for example 1px=1m (resolution is not random, but it is typical for modern Earth imaging satellites, and for other Earth imaging technologies).
I think, in 100 years, most probably, will exist technology to make photo (or drawing) from height and then translate it into bits and decode text.
And to find it, I think will be enough to place in book geocoordinates and even most probably, Earth will be still round and even if GPS will not exist, somebody will know, how to convert GPS coordinates to what will exist.
With some luck, possible that these giant pictures will notice few big information entities and place in their archives, so history will save them.
Sure, here quality have not less importance than quantity, even so powerful entity as Life could disappear, so need to somehow attract attention of few, not only one.
Travel to a secluded part oft he world with plenty of sunshine. Bury a time capsule containing a Rasberry pi with a long antenna and solar panel sticking out of the ground behind a big pile of shrubbery.