Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
The world wide web is only 28 years old.<p>We&#x27;ve had computers for 76 years at this point.<p>We&#x27;re discussing this topic in modern English, but if you look back 500 years William Shakespeare wouldn&#x27;t be born for another couple of generations: vocabulary and grammar have changed a <i>lot</i> since then, and if you look back a further 500 years (to 1021AD) the &quot;English&quot; spoken in those days was a lot closer to Frisian than anything we&#x27;d understand.<p>To get the big picture of what 500 years means ... the oldest surviving writing is roughly 5500 years old. We&#x27;ve had agriculture for roughly 11,000 years. And you&#x27;re asking for a personal legacy to be legible and usable after surviving a span of time 10% as vast as the existence of writing itself?<p>Think archival grade materials and ink, <i>then</i> add translations into Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish -- there&#x27;s a much better chance of it being readable if you have more than one language. Then maybe add a dictionary, just in case words have fallen out of use. Make multiple copies and distribute them around the world, including tectonically stable desiccated regions that are currently lightly- or un-inhabited and likely to remain so: the criteria for deep disposal nuclear waste repositories are applicable (minus the &quot;deep&quot;) bit, so Yucca Flats would do, or the Atacama Desert or the McMurdo dry valleys in Antarctica.