Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?

Post by Robotbeat » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 8:36 PM UTC

rsj_hn wrote: post #389

markstos wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The United States government studied this question and came to the conclusion of... acid free paper. So it's now law that "permanent" documents in the US are to be stored on acid free paper: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rt/perm/permpapr.... Some of us who remember the 5.25" floppy disks, the 3" "floppy" disks, the HUGE Zipdisks, the 5.25" spinning platter drives, the 2.5" spinning platter drives, then t…

Acid free paper is a big improvement, but it's not gonna last 500 years. It's expected to last 200 years. Archival acid-free paper -- paper with cotton added to it -- can last up to 1000 years, but be prepared to pay $2.50 for 1 page[1], so a 400 page book will cost you $1000 for one copy, just for the paper in the book. This type of archival paper might be useful for important contracts or deeds, or legal documents.…

Post by idiotsecant » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 8:36 PM UTC

j-bos wrote: post #242

pugworthy wrote: post #161

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appe…

I'm partial to the remix: https://twitter.com/PateraQuetzaI/status/1156300892733243392... Link to a thread of Percy Shelley's "Ozimandias" in the rhythm of Smash Mouth's All Star

Post by MetaWhirledPeas » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 8:36 PM UTC

NoGravitas wrote: post #155

Print it out on acid-free paper with a stable, acid-free ink. Have it bound as a hardback, and seal it into a waterproof container. Entrust it to one of your children, tell them to keep it in a safe-deposit box and take it out once a year to share with their children, and to pass it on to their children with the same instructions. If you have it electronically, the absolute best case in 500 years is that it will be a…

Post by Robotbeat » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 8:41 PM UTC

trhway wrote: post #342

NoGravitas wrote: post #155

Print it out on acid-free paper with a stable, acid-free ink. Have it bound as a hardback, and seal it into a waterproof container. Entrust it to one of your children, tell them to keep it in a safe-deposit box and take it out once a year to share with their children, and to pass it on to their children with the same instructions. If you have it electronically, the absolute best case in 500 years is that it will be a…

> keep it in a safe-deposit box on a practically non-declining 2000km high orbit where USSR Uranium nuclear reactors are parked.

Post by Kheyas » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC