When the few scattered survivors of our upcoming nuclear winter emerge and rebuild society, posts like these will be used in textbooks to prove we had it coming.
Dude, I’m so geeked out about the digital archaeology that will take place in the post-apocalyptic civilizational reboot.
I wish I could be alive to see it, but the best I can do is start hoarding data now so that whoever finds it centuries from now will thank the nameless individual who preserved that one sliver of human knowledge for posterity…
When the few scattered survivors of our upcoming nuclear winter emerge and rebuild society, posts like these will be used in textbooks to prove we had it coming.
And they won’t be wrong
Dude, I’m so geeked out about the digital archaeology that will take place in the post-apocalyptic civilizational reboot.
I wish I could be alive to see it, but the best I can do is start hoarding data now so that whoever finds it centuries from now will thank the nameless individual who preserved that one sliver of human knowledge for posterity…
I have some weird shit I got from 4chan about 15 years ago. I wonder what they’ll make of that.
Then pls just save everything in a format that will be accessible by then.
Don’t worry, I’ll use btrfs
(/s)
The real problem is using hardware that won’t corrupt over time and keeping it out of the elements
Hahaha
Yeah and hardware that future people will recognize as such and can figure out how to use it.
There is this project dedicated to store code: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/
I think they’ll be able to figure it out, at least when combined with everything else they learn about our era.