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0 pointslm284694y ago0 comments

Write a book and distribute it in high enough numbers. Things that seem too big to ever fall today might not exists in even 10 years, let alone 500, that's valid for every tech companies and even tech paradigms, you'd need people to actively migrate your site every XX years

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PaulHoule4y ago· 3 in thread

Paper doesn't have a great record over a 500 year timescale.

The collection of the Metropolitan Museum has an API

https://metmuseum.github.io/

and I went fishing a few months ago for images to print onto 8″x8″ squares and it's clear that older objects pick up damage over time. There are all kinds of beautiful objects from ancient Egypt but they are not made of paper. A print from the 15ᵗʰ century looks like

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/367024

It's frequently said that oil paintings hold up well over time such as

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/816514

but paintings like that get a lot of attention in the form of cleaning and retouching.

Many of my favorite images come from paintings that are about 100 years old, such as the Futurists. These are old enough to have scans in the public domain but young enough that they haven't picked up the damage you see in older art that hasn't been heavily retouched.

lm28469OP4y ago

Yeah of course, the og medium probably won't last 500 years, but if it's good enough to matter people will put them in safe spaces or reproduce them. Good quality modern books kept in ok storage conditions should last hundreds of years. I have a couple ~100 years old books and they look as new besides slight yellowing.

Prints are different since they're much more exposed and fragile than books

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CoastalCoder4y ago

> Many of my favorite images come from paintings that are about 100 years old, such as the Futurists.

Sounds interesting! Mind sharing links to some of your favourites?

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yesenadam4y ago

> A print from the 13ᵗʰ century looks like

It says "ca. 1435–1491" - the 15th C.

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