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it will have to be a strong AI virus so it can keep rewriting itself as new software updates come along so you’re risking a skynet situation - oh! reminds me of the cowboy bebop episode where a hacked satellite entertains itself by drawing geoglyphs in the desert-definitely do that.
IPFS might be an option. God knows if it'll be around in 500 years, but it seems like a promising solution, and it's designed to get around link rot.
Edit: Perhaps, of course, JavaScript :P
You would probably be best served by backing things up to tape and instilling a culture of copying these tapes every 15-20 years by your decendents :)
Become really famous (or infamous) so you don't have to host anything. Others will do it for you. Think about all the people you know who existed 500+ years ago. Did we just happen to find a book/stone where they wrote their story ? It was more about what they did that created history. So, create history and you will be hosted for ever. Think of names like Julius Caeser etc.
"Anything really important is also worth doing anonymously."
Your best shot is a simple set of files on a few redundant medium. If you want to get fancy, put a browser on there that will run (presumably emulated) with no network dependencies. Hopefully with a 64 bit time_t.
Look at what has lasted 500 years, and use those media. Websites are not among them. 1) stone 2) books if printed on the right kind of paper 3) metal if it's not something subject to rust Even if it is possible to make a website that lasts 500 years, I expect we haven't figured out how yet. I'm sure it took people a while to figure out how to make long-lasting tombstones; early North American ones were often made out…
This isn't a fair premise. Websites have not existed for 500 years and were not possible until roughly around the time of their inception.
Or you can take your chances, which, again statistically speaking, is not good if we're talking about websites lasting 500 years.