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bound paper with words on the pages and a nice leather cover. drop it off a cliff, cut it in half. cut it quarters, hell shred it. rub out a quarter of the le
by marstall 5y ago
bound paper with words on the pages and a nice leather cover.
drop it off a cliff, cut it in half. cut it quarters, hell shred it.
rub out a quarter of the letters. get it dirty, magnetize it. forget about it completely (it will turn up when you move).
let it sit in almost any dry environment for centuries or millennia.
let every technology that existed when it was created be forgotten.
It will still be readable.
- indigochill 5y agoIt runs into the same problem as long-term computer media, which is that the knowledge to read it may be lost. There was a period of time when nobody could read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, for instance, even though the hieroglyphs themselves survived.
- throwanem 5y agoStill better odds of legibility than this weird engraved chunk of gold-plated nickel, though.
- HPsquared 5y agoHow much data can be encoded on a single page? Edit: from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_data_storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_data_storage I'm assuming black and white is best for long term archiving. "an 8″ × 10″ 600dpi black-and-white image contains 3.43 MiB of data"
- marstall 5y agoI'm picturing words at a readable font size. make the pixels tiny like that and you need some specific technology to retrieve the info - and if the format is fragile, a single smudged bit could ruin everything.
- Double_a_92 5y agoMicroform is similar to what you are thinking of.
- marstall 5y agoyes - I think that fits the bill pretty well too.
- ovi256 5y agoAbout half a MB per A4 side, according to a practical system described here: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134427-a-paper-based-backup-solution-not-as-stupid-as-it-sounds https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134427-a-paper-based-bac... The 3.43MB@600dpi value does not include any redundancy and margin that a practical system needs. Now let's build a block storage system that uses A4 paper as blocks :) Given the ubiquity of paper sheets, there should good sheet manipulation and archival systems around right ?