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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by lou1306 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:53AM (#43184139)
> They either degrade

Much more slowly and gracefully than any digital medium we have concocted so far (save for core rope memory, maybe).

> even if preserved can become unreadable (e.g. Linear B) without a surviving linguistic community [...] translations produced with century-scale gaps often lose subtext

This pertains to the message and not the support; also, I'll take missing subtext over missing text any day of the week, thank you very much.

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by internetter on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:28AM (#43278915)
> Much more slowly and gracefully than any digital medium we have concocted so far

https://arcticworldarchive.org/ would like a word

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by lou1306 on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:02AM (#43289824)
This is a high-tech vault located in the Arctic. Compare this with manuscripts that survived centuries by virtue of simply being on a library shelf in some random monastery.

Furthermore, the vault contents are stored on piqlFilm, which in turn uses Boxing barcodes [1]. So, they literally rely on an analog support.

I restm my case.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_barcode

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