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Ask HN: You have 8GB to store for the future. What do you keep?
You have an 8GB microsd to stash in an impervious time-capsule. What information will you put on it?
- aristus 16y agoAssuming such a time capsule is feasible, I'd save the locations and contents of all other known time capsules. eg, http://www.paperinternet.org http://www.paperinternet.org The biggest problem with time capsules is that people forget where the damned things are.
- sbierwagen 16y agoThe english wikipedia (without edit history) is about 4 gigs, compressed. So, that. http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia Not sure what I'd do with the other four gigs.
- cloudwalking 16y agoHow Things Work in digital version?
- latch 16y agoMy dropbox folder.
- jodrellblank 16y agoAny future which can read it is not going to need any kind of "how to rebuild technology after an apocalypse" kind of information. 1) Random data. Hopefully they find an 8Gb memory stick in a mysteriously impervious container, fille with heavily compressed or encrypted data (heh heh) and it becomes a notorious puzzle. 2) Sell the space.
- jhen095 16y agoMy personal photos. Always the first thing to be backed up and always the first thing to save in a disaster. Either I can use the time-capsule as a safe backup and come back to it in 60 years. Or someone else will find it in another time (far distant future) and it will be an important archeological find. Oh to be immortal.
- anujkk 16y ago1) I would store books of all kind - Science, History, Language, Economics, Philosophy etc. Also some religious writings such as Vedas. 2) If there is some space left, I would like to keep information, designs, code, etc of important products.
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y ago- Video of Leonard Cohen's Dance me to the end of Love - Text of One Hundred Years of Solitude and random crap.
- drallison 16y agoFirst things first. How long are things going to remain in your impervious time-capsule? Microsd cards are just flash memory. Over time, the information will leak away. How long that will take is hard to guess, but if you are aiming for a century or more, microsd is likely to not be a good choice. Furthermore, what is going to be used to read the data you preserve on the microsd? Do you think there will be microsd readers a few decades into the future, much less a century. Assuming that you do use the microsd, I would use two different physical cards, incorporate multiple copies of whatever I choose to include on each of the microsd cards, and add in some heavy duty error correction codes so degraded content can be recovered. Oh, one more thing, it might be a good idea to use a card that has write protection so that revisionist history is difficult.
- naithemilkman 16y agoMichael Jackson and Justin Biber Mp3s
- naithemilkman 16y agoSorry, I meant to say Justin Bieber
- nicklovescode 16y agoThe history and comments of hacker news
- runjake 16y agoWikipedia compressed, my personal journals, pics of the kids & family.
- icco 16y agoArt. High quality photos from a large portion of museums. Maybe something like 500 pieces from each major art movement and time period? Then chuck wikipedia on there, and maybe a dictionary.