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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by rbanffy on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:48PM (#29221509)
Clay tablets are still the gold standard for durability ;-)
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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by JulianMorrison on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:25PM (#29221755)
They will never forget Ea-nasir.
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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by robbedpeter on Sunday November 14, 2021 @11:04PM (#29223548)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150310133210/http://anthropolo...
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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by pmontra on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:42PM (#29221867)
Engraved rock?
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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by mjevans on Monday November 15, 2021 @12:44AM (#29224148)
You want something cheap, inert, resilient, and unlikely to be repurposed for any other use.

QR codes are one of the first sort of barcodes to come to my mind for storage; but I'm reminded of how poorly they encode text compared to analog characters on a printed page. The printed letters are also a technology that is already known and self documenting. If you can understand the content there's no intermediate representation.

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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by buttonpusher on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:55PM (#29221946)
Mask ROMs are engraved rocks.
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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by rbanffy on Monday November 15, 2021 @12:42PM (#29230094)
The pattern of entanglements on the surface of a black hole.
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