IPFS I guess.
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
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#652By that time, every website on the planet has been rewritten as a native app.
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Maybe a better question is, what would HTML have looked like in the time of Shakespeare? Forsooth!
I was going to say (as if that were the main objection) that the = there was apocryphal, but I had my centuries wrong: Recorde invented it in the mid-16th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equals_sign#History I wonder when angle braces were introduced?
Recorde is one of those intellectual heroes I only learned of a few years ago. It seems like no big deal now, but using a symbol instead of words to represent am equation was revolutionary.
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Mm, you're right, but Geocities might be less interesting to historians than an archive of all internet history. Also, as someone who has trained a few large GPT models, I think ML has a chance of preserving a lot of this data. Training datasets are only growing larger and larger, and although those aren't updated (yet), there's no reason to think they won't last for a long time. I imagine that in 500 years, imagenet…
Well, everyone was hyped on perl at the turn of the millennium. Yet not many people write it anymore. I keep waiting for the re-surge, but it just doesn't look like it is going to happen. At nuclear waste sites, even the feds have come up with a few ways of saying "Don't enter. It is bad" with different languages, pictorial signs, and such. It is really tough to figure out what the next few hundred years looks like.…
> Maybe the right thing to do is do something so great for society that they want to write books on you (eg: George Washington).
Rarely do the people that seek this actually achieve this. --quoth the raven
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Ironically the dictionaries you mention have greatly stabilised language. Language is going to be far more stable over the next 500 years. I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest.
Is it ? The language is evolving very fast. Compare English from the 50's to what is spoken now, take into account the major dialects around the world... I don't see much stability.
I don't think it has evolved much at all. New words, yes, and some words fell out of favor. But you can find a book written in the 50s or a movie from the 50s and you would have no trouble understanding it. I'm fact, without context, you likely wouldn't notice it was from 70 years ago.
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Create nuclear blasts that encode the information in short microbursts. Info will be available in the carbon record and in tree rings around the world .... profit?
At that rate, just make sure it's part of the human genome :)
Short story where SETI programmers turn new message hunting code on archived files and it detects a message in the human genome rather than in radio signals from the cosmos: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html
( https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252832/short-story... )
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#658I love the hubris of this. It's going to have to be something profound to have anyone, including your progeny, care about it in 50, let alone 500 years after you are gone.
I'm actually not convinced we aren't being trolled here after giving this some more thought.
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But who will administer the site after you pass? It's much harder to justify the administering effort, when you never even knew the original guy.
Adding money might help. We have a small scale investment in our cap table from a German family who have kept their money together for 650 years…
Seems like the greater feat would be keeping your family size small over 650 years. Most any level of wealth will start to fade if you have to split it amongst 1,000 heirs.
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I was curious what this would cost and found a thorough stackexchange post [0] that puts the price at 0.032 ETH per KB stored on-chain. Comes out to around 12,000 USD for a small 100kb static site. I would guess this cost is competitive with carving binary data into stone, not bad for permenant storage, reading the data is free. [0] https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/872/what-is-the...
Hmm. Putting 1 gigabyte in S3 for 500 years at today's most expensive price ($0.023 per gigabyte month) would be $138. Prices are certain to decrease over time. This says something about the cost of using the Ethereum blockchain for storage.
Would S3 exist in 500 years? Bezos would be long gone. Our tech would be long gone. I'd think about the only thing we could do the same is walk and open our mouth's.
And who knows what the unexpected looks like...Wars, political shifts, etc. Hell, until 2019, I thought toilet paper was unlimited. Once again, toilet paper is starting to look like the currency of the new-world.
:) That's a joke BTW. But is it? I don't want to go back to using squirrels as toilet paper!