Clay tablets it is … the Sumerians knew what they were doing.
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
No storage medium is eternal.
It’s kind of touching to think how every moment will disappear at some point.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
The dude who coined the phrase “nothing is written in stone” was pretty ignorant about history.
Wahots@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Etched glass storage can survive for insane periods of time, but is probably extremely expensive to write to. It might be better for things like offworld backups of human knowledge, almost like seed vaults.
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
M-Discs exist
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
early CDs suffered from the data layer literally falling off, some blu rays are known to suffer from bit rot, vinyl gets damaged whenever it’s played.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Lasers write to glass too
Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
All of those…moments…will be lost. Like tears in the rain.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
To borrow from the racing world: Speed costs money son, how fast you wanna go?
Replication/Duplication/backup, with error detection is key.
Datacenter folks have been working on this stuff since the 90’s.
ThePantser@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As long as you keep backing up the digital files to new drives every few years the files will stay almost exact. But a powered down HDD should stay pretty prestine if you just use it as backup.