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0 pointsvortico4y ago0 comments

Host the content/pages on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/ There's a pretty good chance their collection (and possibly the organization themselves) will be around in 500 yrs. 1 EB in 100 yrs will be trivial to host (probably the price of a loaf of bread), and your content will be accessible by anyone with a copy of that archive.

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Retr0spectrum4y ago· 1 in thread

This requires the assumption that storage will continue to exponentially (or at the very least, linearly) decrease in cost. It also requires a certain amount of good luck. I would hope the IA has a reasonable amount of data resilience, but you never know.

vorticoOP4y ago

I would bet my life savings on the fact that storage per normalized price will grow exponentially (with some tau) after 500 years. Supply/demand with gradually developing technology is one of most guaranteed forces in humanity, and people will demand cheaper data storage as long as we demand information.

thinkingemote4y ago· 1 in thread

Why is there a good chance the organisation will be around in 500?

Most non profit internet orgs will ofte sell out for the right price unless set up properly. What makes this different?

vorticoOP4y ago

I didn't say there's a good chance the Internet Archive will be around in 500, but it possibly will.

SapporoChris4y ago

This might be off tangent. Create something similar to the Internet Archive, but for profit. Of course the key to success is remaining profitable for 500 years.

joe_the_user4y ago

Host the content on the "open web" but make sure Archive and every other crawler keeps a copy.

paulpauper4y ago

yeah that could work too

same also for upload to wikimedia

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