In Case of Apocalypse, Open This Arctic Code Vault which is based in Svalbard, Norway; the end of the earth! ๐ฐ โ๏ธ โ
The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is a data repository preserved in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a very-long-term archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain. The archive is located in a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago, closer to the North Pole than the Arctic Circle. GitHub will capture a snapshot of every active public repository on 02/02/2020 and preserve that data in the Arctic Code Vault.
GitHub will save the data for 1000 years and they are researching to reach 2000 years ๐น
Here is the official trailer of GitHub Arctic Code Vault.
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman went to Svalbard to see the infrastructure himself and the full documentary can be seen here -
Also, GitHub is gonna launch Mobile Apps for Andoird and iOS ๐
They allowed free private repos few months which was awesome! Now they are doing all these!
Seems like GitHub is going insane ๐
What do you think?
Cheers! ๐
As I am trying to contribute contents on the Web, you can buy me a coffee for my hours spent on all of these โค๏ธ๐๐ธ
Top comments (6)
I was all set to say that the Svalbard bit sounded like an April Fool's joke and, if serious, was the dumbest thing I'd heard in a good while, but then I was informed by a colleague attending a conference that a blockchain CEO just claimed that "the last time anyone put any real work into databases was 45 years ago".
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Open-source time capsule: cute! potentially of interest to future software archaeologists!
Open-source time capsule on microfiche in Svalbard: abjectly stupid gimmick.
Open-source time capsule on microfiche in Svalbard in case of societal collapse: hey, future humans, human-adjacent beings, or sentient terrestrial squid, we're thinking about you! Hope everything's groovy in the Xerodrome! We put the Bitcoin codebase in one of the remotest corners of the northern hemisphere on the off-chance you still have tech capable of reading it and want to know what it was we boiled off the oceans to accomplish (sorry about that, not our best idea)!
Haha
Great idea and very smart to actually store a world open source source code snapshot for a 1000-2000 years. :)
Seems so.
Also this is a big marketing strategy too in a positive way at the same time!