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Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world

Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years::Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So it’s great for archival storage. This is exactly the type of thing I’m interested in if it was cheap enough.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        My media collection. I really only need like 50 years tops. At which point I’ll be dead or to senile to enjoy it. Unless I can back up my own consciousness onto it. Then… That.

          • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I don’t have anything I can’t open and I’ve got stuff from 20+ years ago. I don’t even have to go out of my way to have applications that are compatible with it. If I did run across something I would just build a VM with whatever software I needed to open it. Just have to keep in mind what software you’ll need and back that up as well.

          • Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Interesting replies but I’m just wondering what file format to use.

            ascii + markdown for text if you’re from the US

            Don’t we have troubles opening stuff from 4-5 os versions ago?

            Yeah, but that is because people want to make money and so make their file formats difficult to understand on purpose.

            Whatever creatures discover our mystical tablets will hopefully be far smarter than us, or they’ll use the sum of human knowledge to tile their bathrooms.