Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany

Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by AndrewOMartin on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:18AM (#26523012)

If they intend to maintain an archive of all the demos ever created then I will volunteer one of my old 128Mb USB drives to mirror it.

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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by kaoD on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:55AM (#26523612)

Demos are still made nowadays. http://www.pouet.net/ lists 84845 prods in archive (although that includes tools, engines, etc.)

If you want to mirror, https://files.scene.org/faq/ says its archive is about 2TB, or about 15625 of your old 128MB USB disks :P The archive from 1990 demoparties is already 5GB!

I know your comment was probably tongue-in-cheek, I just wanted to share the actual numbers.

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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by skrebbel on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:47AM (#26523569)

That will fit approximately 1 modern demo, give or take.

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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by floatboth on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:33PM (#26527422)

lol, considering that 4 kilobyte Windows executables are the cool thing these days, it would fit way more :P

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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by abductee_hg on Sunday March 21, 2021 @11:05AM (#26530979)

ehem...

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