I couldn't help dark-laughing at "if dead, then that"
Love it! haha
Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife
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On acid-free paper.
I disagree - digital is the only route. Printouts will get lost, bent, fires, floods, and lost. The broader idea that I find interesting however is how to preserve digital content for > 100 years. It's okay if other people don't care about that - I do, and I think it's an interesting set of problem constraints, and was just wondering if anyone else has thought about it. It's difficult to suggest an actual use case fo…
Looking at 200 year old photos is easy.
Trying to find hardware to access a 30 year old hard drive is not.
Re: Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't do this. I somehow ended up with all the pictures of family going back to the 1800s. I have 5 suitcases full that I now have to scan. Find the best representative photos, and upload them to Geni.com, Ancestry.com, MyHerritage.com, 23andme, etc. They are bound to survive from one of those sources.
Why don't you just pass on 6 suitcases instead of adding the risk of losing digital media. The current process has worked for your family for 200 years.
Color inkjet printing wasn't a thing 50 years ago