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> They either degrade Much more slowly and gracefully than any digital medium we have concocted so far (save for core rope memory, maybe). > even if preserved
by lou1306 2y ago
> They either degrade
Much more slowly and gracefully than any digital medium we have concocted so far (save for core rope memory, maybe).
> even if preserved can become unreadable (e.g. Linear B) without a surviving linguistic community [...] translations produced with century-scale gaps often lose subtext
This pertains to the message and not the support; also, I'll take missing subtext over missing text any day of the week, thank you very much.
- internetter 2y ago> Much more slowly and gracefully than any digital medium we have concocted so far https://arcticworldarchive.org/ https://arcticworldarchive.org/ would like a word
- lou1306 2y agoThis is a high-tech vault located in the Arctic. Compare this with manuscripts that survived centuries by virtue of simply being on a library shelf in some random monastery. Furthermore, the vault contents are stored on piqlFilm, which in turn uses Boxing barcodes [1]. So, they literally rely on an analog support. I restm my case. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_barcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_barcode