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A comment on Ask HN: What's a reliable long-term personal storage medium?.

Re:Ask HN: What's a reliable long-term personal storage medium? by informatimago on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @03:34PM (#6323210)
For a human lifetime, paper. For centuries to millenia, stone. For ten or thousands of millenia, perhaps even up to hundred of million years, live DNA. As for file formats, the letter is dead, the spirit is live.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a reliable long-term personal storage medium? by Nicholas_C on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @10:34AM (#6399510)
>DNA

Someone tell me why this wouldn't work.

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