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The joke might be "several" years.

• rbanffy 5y ago
  Clay tablets are still the gold standard for durability ;-)
  • pmontra 5y ago
    Engraved rock?
    • buttonpusher 5y ago
      Mask ROMs are engraved rocks.
    • mjevans 5y ago
      You want something cheap, inert, resilient, and unlikely to be repurposed for any other use. QR codes are one of the first sort of barcodes to come to my mind for storage; but I'm reminded of how poorly they encode text compared to analog characters on a printed page. The printed letters are also a technology that is already known and self documenting. If you can understand the content there's no intermediate representation.
    • rbanffy 5y ago
      The pattern of entanglements on the surface of a black hole.
  • JulianMorrison 5y ago
    They will never forget Ea-nasir.
    • robbedpeter 5y ago
      https://web.archive.org/web/20150310133210/http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp363-ss15/2015/03/05/customer-service-in-ancient-mesopotamia/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150310133210/http://anthropolo...