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Honestly paper, parchment and stone have a pretty bad record as a format. They either degrade or even if preserved can become unreadable (e.g. Linear B) without

• labster 2y ago
  If you’re going oral tradition, you might as well use repeatedly-compressed JPEG instead. Same quality but less space used by the storage devices.
• drexlspivey 2y ago
  I’d suggest stone tablets
• lou1306 2y ago
  > 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.
  • internetter 2y ago
    > Much more slowly and gracefully than any digital medium we have concocted so far https://arcticworldarchive.org/ https://arcticworldarchive.org/ would like a word
    • lou1306 2y ago
      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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_barcode