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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by Aeolun on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:50PM (#28964238)
> After a millennium, how would anyone know how to operate it

Same way they know now. Humans will still be humans. If my 3 year old son can figure out how my e-reader works from nothing, so can future humans.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? by bccdee on Saturday October 23, 2021 @01:23PM (#28970451)
Can he figure out how to build a charger for that e-reader from scratch? Wall sockets are going to be different in a millenium, if they even exist at all. With no manual, they could easily fry it with too much voltage before they actually get it working.
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