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Hopefully some remnant of humanity will cast out among the stars with ultra-high density storage holding archives of most of human knowledge.
How is that going to repair anyone's kettle?
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“There will exist 500 year old actively serviced BBS phone lines” —someone in 1985, probably
The thing is there can't be more than one internet, ever. The moment someone invents a new internet, someone will create a gateway to the old internet, and the internet will live on.
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The second part of your answer is hilarious and depressing.
Never underestimate the power of basic human needs over layers of abstractions. Software's intangibility will be its downfall when our modern society eventually collapses.
I hope your predictions bring similar joy to future readers in the decades, centuries, and millenia to come.
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Something 500 years old is by definition worth keeping, alone for historians.
I'm emptying out a storage bin with 25+ year old stuff that begs to differ. Storing things has a cost, actually storing things so they last, far more so. Even historians curate and don't keep everything.
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“There will exist 500 year old actively serviced BBS phone lines” —someone in 1985, probably
There's content from those BBS systems still available; so dunno if thats the argument (I think) you think it is.
By analogy, the contents of a few torrents might be archived somewhere 500 years from now, but nobody will be seeding the torrents themselves.
The base layer could be text files and image, even though jpeg might not exists in 200 year some other format does.
But you must leave it up to you grandchildren to update the solution to modern formats. Maybe set some inheritance up to support this.
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Never underestimate the power of basic human needs over layers of abstractions. Software's intangibility will be its downfall when our modern society eventually collapses.
When society collapses, software of any kind will probably be among the least of our concerns.
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.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_...
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