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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by ironmagma on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:12PM (#28960561)
When society collapses, software of any kind will probably be among the least of our concerns.
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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by pc86 on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:20PM (#28960646)
Wait so I shouldn't be spending all this time learning vi?
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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by ironmagma on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:01PM (#28961978)
I guess there’s always the chance that society is collapsing because not enough people are trained with software to fix whatever the problem is.
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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by theK on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:10AM (#28966851)
Yes, the idiocracy scenario does appear more and more relevant when you go out and look around and realize that 99.9% of civilization treats tech just as black box appliances....
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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by znpy on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:26PM (#28960727)
No, you should learn emacs.

M-x purify-water is gonna save a lot of people one day.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by jfabre on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:25PM (#28960703)
depends on how gullible you are..
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