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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

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you eventually be able to get data printed and have the plates sent to you, so you can store them yourself in a safe place?

This would be a great option for preserving the source media for films and videos, for example. Not just the finished product, but every take etc.

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[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are you going to read it with? Unless it’s photographically reduced text, like microfiche, it’s unlikely that the computer hardware and software will still exist.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Nobody uses a 6502 with commodore basic anymore either, I can still pop on an emulator in about 10 seconds to run a game from that era.

Have some information there to build a reader, we can read hieroglyphics and cuneiform and that's older, more primitive and only written in a few places by a few people.

This is pretty doable.

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[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah so that's what those traslucid bricks were in star trek!

[–] slowroll@r.nf 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

is this Read Write or read only?

[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can write to it.......

once

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[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i find these things cool and all but any company worth having things archived already fucked it up so much that theres not much left TO archive

at least ti feels like it

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[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In 10k years, there either won’t be anyone left to read them, or the technology at the time won’t be able to read them.

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[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really don't care until I can buy one. In the meantime I have a few hdd's and an old LTO4 drive...

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[–] ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is best for long term photo and and video storage. Even commercial ones. And for the internet archive as well.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Gonna need a full 10,000 year UAT period thanks

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People 10,000 years from now will know how to read these files.

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, we have people that are able to read Mayan writing...

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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

10,000 years is kinda hard to prove without a time machine, but sounds useful for long term archival storage.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember reading abiut this possibly 10 years ago or more. It's insane how long it's been in development

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[–] TvanBuuren@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Unless you put it in the dishwasher to often.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Archeologists will find these in 1000 years and think it's just nice glass.

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