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Re:How to build something that lasts 10k years by oftenwrong on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:07AM (#20163380)
"The Rosetta Stone didn't survive thousands of years in the desert because of some intrinsic cultural value. It survived because it's made of stone. ... The future disagrees about what is and is not important, and why. That's the defining characteristic of the future. No one today cares what the Rosetta Stone actually says, yet it is more important to us (as the key to hieroglyphics) than it was to the society that made it."

http://carlos.bueno.org/2008/08/save-web.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20171104052354/http://carlos.bue...

(I am a bit amused to realise, after reviewing the Internet Archive snapshots, that this article has changed quite a bit over the years.)

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Re:How to build something that lasts 10k years by masklinn on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:04AM (#20163661)
> "The Rosetta Stone didn't survive thousands of years in the desert because of some intrinsic cultural value.

I get the point but the reference is pretty crummy, the rosetta stone is a very young artefact on the scale of long-term preservation (most extant bog bodies are older).

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