23 Feb
2007
23 Feb
'07
12:22 p.m.
On 2/23/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/23/07, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
perhaps the best means of storage after all these years in regards to
longativity was those punch cards? :P wonder what a 1GB punchcard would look
like...
At 02:04 PM 2/23/2007, William Donzelli wrote:
So clearly the proper way to preserve our antique data is to use
steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
redundant fashion all around the world.
Why, the Internet is halfway there already.
I'll stop now.
- John
Pictures do fade after a while you know so those aren't perfect means of
storage either (rats!) ;-) :-p
>Good answer :) Certainly not permanent. Could
we (as a species)
theoretically
>make something that will last for a fairly
significant (from a human
POV)
length of
time, such as a few hundred years?
Art.