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The Github arctic code vault appears to have created TAR archives and turned them into a sequence of QR codes on a kind of film. And then thrown them in a hole

The Github arctic code vault appears to have created TAR archives and turned them into a sequence of QR codes on a kind of film. And then thrown them in a hole under 250 meters of permafrost in Svalbard.

taftster 5y ago
I honestly thought you were being silly. Wow! https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/ https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/
- titzer 5y ago
  I noticed that Virgil got the arctic code vault badge, and thought it was funny, but I never checked what the conditions or criteria were. So I looked. > The snapshot consists of the HEAD of the default branch of each repository, minus any binaries larger than 100KB in size. (Repos with 250+ stars retained their binaries.) Each was packaged as a single TAR file. Virgil bootstraps from compiler binaries checked into the repo--there is literally no other way to get a PL off the ground without a compiler or interpreter binary in some language another computer understands--so I guess the archive has a completely useless source-only copy. That is, unless future historians want to write a new interpreter in order to run the source that's checked in :D
  - iszomer 5y ago
    What's potentially amusing is how GitHub might handle code revisions if they were possibly stored on a WORM medium. Several past companies[1] have attempted to engineer storage that might outlast us all and even Elon Musk snuck in one such repository[2] when he launched his Tesla Roadster into space. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPhase_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPhase_Technologies [2] https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foundation-announces-our-payload-on-spacex-falcon-heavy-c4c9908d5dd1 https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foun...
leephillips 5y ago
Black & white photographic film is the most stable practical storage medium that we have.
- wrycoder 5y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire
Bud 5y ago
Permafrost: now known as all-too-temporary-frost.

taftster 5y ago

I honestly thought you were being silly. Wow! https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/ https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

titzer 5y ago
I noticed that Virgil got the arctic code vault badge, and thought it was funny, but I never checked what the conditions or criteria were. So I looked. > The snapshot consists of the HEAD of the default branch of each repository, minus any binaries larger than 100KB in size. (Repos with 250+ stars retained their binaries.) Each was packaged as a single TAR file. Virgil bootstraps from compiler binaries checked into the repo--there is literally no other way to get a PL off the ground without a compiler or interpreter binary in some language another computer understands--so I guess the archive has a completely useless source-only copy. That is, unless future historians want to write a new interpreter in order to run the source that's checked in :D
- iszomer 5y ago
  What's potentially amusing is how GitHub might handle code revisions if they were possibly stored on a WORM medium. Several past companies[1] have attempted to engineer storage that might outlast us all and even Elon Musk snuck in one such repository[2] when he launched his Tesla Roadster into space. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPhase_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPhase_Technologies [2] https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foundation-announces-our-payload-on-spacex-falcon-heavy-c4c9908d5dd1 https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foun...

leephillips 5y ago

Black & white photographic film is the most stable practical storage medium that we have.

wrycoder 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire

Bud 5y ago

Permafrost: now known as all-too-temporary-frost.