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

    • Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org
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      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.

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      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.