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0 pointsomarhaneef4y ago0 comments

Thought experiment: imagine it is 1985 and you asked the equivalent question. Something along the lines of: how would I preserve an electronic game/message/piece of media for posterity?

What would the answer be?

Make sure you copy your floppy on to a tape on the commodore 64?

Make sure that you post the message to at least 4 different bulletin boards?

The tech is evolving so fast that a website, or today's hardware, or forms of media will be unrecognizable 50 years from now.

Perhaps the first question is, what will be the equivalent of a website in 500 years?

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grey-area4y ago

Funny you should ask that. Because in 1986, the hilarious answer the BBC came up with was 2 Videodiscs, which were obsolete almost as soon as they were introduced:

https://atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html

The latest way to preserve the content from those disks, since nobody can read them any more, is on the internet, so perhaps the OP is on to something - perhaps the internet will survive 500 years in some form, given its obvious utility.

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