Wow, it’s finally coming here, for real! The GitHub Archiving
program, an initiative to save all public code repositories on
GitHub to the Arctic World Archive (AWA) on microfilm. Yes, this is
it, a testament to those who truly value what matters has the will to
preserve it long-term, using the best-of-trade tools. Yep, this is
real, this is also a really good point for emphasizing the value of
software with non-technical family and friends.
20191127/https://archiveprogram.github.com/
This Bloomberg Businessweek article includes more pictures of what the
inside of the Arctic World Archive looks like.
20191119/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-13/microsoft-apocalypse-proofs-open-source-code-in-an-arctic-cave
And here is a LinkedIn post that includes a video taken during a
previous GitHub Arctic Code Vault deposit.
20191210/https://www.linkedin.com/posts/github_less-than-a-month-left-to-get-your-code-into-activity-6623701717680824320–MPm
Which repositories are included? Any repository that has been
recently updated in the past couple of months.
There is also a lesser valuable initiative, in my experience, to
archive data onto a Quartz disc using a laser. Come on, we know that
is pretty esoteric compared to microfilm, how is a naive human who has
little interest in the sophistication of the technology, let alone
little monetary resources of their own, expected to read and
comprehend anything out of such a form?