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0 pointsalangibson4y ago0 comments

Hosting isn't so much the issue. You need to create something worth keeping around for 500 years. If you succeed, people will make sure it's available somehow.

0 pointsalangibson4y ago0 comments

Hosting isn't so much the issue. You need to create something worth keeping around for 500 years. If you succeed, people will make sure it's available somehow.

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siva74y ago· 2 in thread

Something 500 years old is by definition worth keeping, alone for historians.

mikewarot4y ago

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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tomc19854y ago

Who are regularly awash in the random detritus and scraps of paper left behind by our priors

While I agree they are interested in everything, I think they are more interested in sampling insignificant works, as opposed to archiving all of them

orangepurple4y ago· 1 in thread

There will exist 500 year old torrents

georgyo4y ago

A torrent with no seeders does not really exist.

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