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And I wouldn't use CD-ROMs or Bitcoin
I would use something that's proven to last 500 years, which is basically "paper". This is just "the Lindy effect"
If page is static - engrave it in a titanium plate, possibly as a QR code of sorts and pass it through generations. Include instructions for reader to publish it to whatever media analog of today's web page. So basically stay away from technology, get information encoded into lowest and most resilient physical material and rely on future generation to publish and/or update it's content.
There was a post here on hacker news of a service that would convert a static page and contain the entire page in a URL. That, in turn, could be converted to a QR code. I didn’t notice if it relied on something like bit.ly to store data, but it didn’t seem like it. Unfortunately, I can’t find it again at the moment.
Ask Elon to tweet about it
Once the internet goes down it goes down, and you'd have the local cached copy.
I'd also have this mystical device print out the entire website in paper form every year or so, and then it would automatically shove the book version of it in a miniature Warehouse.
I don't think electronics are going to function any way similar to they do now in 200 years. But books, particularly picture books will always be readable. We already have examples of this, hieroglyphics are thousands of years old but can still be read and interpreted by modern people even without knowledge of the language they were written in.
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But they won’t need to delete anything. Imagine the storage and data science in 500 years. Probably the whole internet of 2021 will fit into a 2521 usb stick
My 600 GB of Photos begs to differ (I've worn out camera shutters!), you can't find anything without a long search. If you can't find it, you don't own it... so yes, in theory it's there, but nobody will access it, ever... so does it really exist any more? It's back to the same meta that everyone else says... you have to make something that people want to have around in 500 years as a first step, or you're just pushi…
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put the rest in an index fund , which helps pay future salary. there are probably ways to do it
I think it's harder than you might think. The New York Stock Exchange was founded in 1792 (229 years ago), there's a lot of things that can wrong over the course of 500 years to mean funding for your project would disappear. Wars, civil unrest, large environmental events etc. are all pretty much guaranteed over a 500 year time span.
If page is static - engrave it in a titanium plate, possibly as a QR code of sorts and pass it through generations. Include instructions for reader to publish it to whatever media analog of today's web page. So basically stay away from technology, get information encoded into lowest and most resilient physical material and rely on future generation to publish and/or update it's content.
There was a post here on hacker news of a service that would convert a static page and contain the entire page in a URL. That, in turn, could be converted to a QR code. I didn’t notice if it relied on something like bit.ly to store data, but it didn’t seem like it. Unfortunately, I can’t find it again at the moment.
Since there are many variations of "then don't use a website!" Answers here, I'll restate the puzzle. Say you had to host the information as a set of static HTML documents and you wanted them to remain accessible for as long as possible; what strategy would give you the best odds?
The Internet Archive would be the easiest way, but a boring answer. You're trusting another organization to maintain your data, but it's about as certain as any other option to be available in the future.
You could trust Cloudflare or AWS to keep an storage bucket alive, but then you've got to continue paying for it, and there will almost certainly be some changes in the next 500 years that would require a human touch. Who knows if AWS will still be around, or if its new parent company, Yahoo-Facebook-Intel, will drop contracts if you don't log on daily to 'Oculus Space'. My point is, The Internet Archive might be your best bet if you rely on another organization to keep the site up.
If you did it yourself, you'd need - a stable file format (SIRF?) - multiple backups and copies, even on the same disk - very stable, simple computer to serve the content - maybe like, a Raspberry Pi-like system submerged and sealed in mineral oil? - static IP address to host from - this might be the dealbreaker for a DIY solution. You'd need to rely on other services - A local network that can be connected to...even after 500 years of changes to networking protocols.
Even with a DIY approach, you'd be relying on a trust of some sort that could handle replacing parts as needed. You could invent an analog titanium read-only storage disk with your data encoded on it, but even if you have bullet-proof hardware, you still need to allow people to connect to your server...and that is the least predictable part of the problem.
If enough people are interested in preserving content like this, a block-chain storage solution could work. You'd be relying on the system still being active in 500 years, so you'd need multiple generations of people all using the same blockchain to preserve their data. Kinda like a decentralized Internet Archive.