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Re:Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Sal... by Animats on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:57PM (#13430208)
There was a US project in the 1950s, as part of Civil Defense, to put all the information needed to rebuild industrial society on microfiche. Copies, along with microfiche viewers that worked in sunlight, without power, were put in major fallout shelters.

Try to find one of those today.

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Re:Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Sal... by 6stringmerc on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:34PM (#13430488)
A University I attended had fallout shelters in at least one of its major campus libraries (also a National Archive IIRC). Might not be 'on the shelf' so to speak but I bet they might still have a copy.
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