> It's interesting how almost all storage media for the last 70 years is either on a long string, a spinning circle, or now a chip. Concur on 'almost all', but

> It's interesting how almost all storage media for the last 70 years is either on a long string, a spinning circle, or now a chip. Concur on 'almost all', but machine readable 2D arrays (in various encodings) on paper or film substrates have never entirely gone away. Elsewhere in this thread, Paperbak is mentioned, but there are other similar formats invented occasionally, like DataGlyphs: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/DataGlyph http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/DataGlyph