Digital doomsday vault

Mickey on November 3, 2025 at 1:31 am

Idea: Digital doomsday vault

Link: https://archive.org/...

The Internet Archive sort of does this already!

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Link: https://archive.org/

ChrisP on November 3, 2025 at 12:15 am

Idea: Digital doomsday vault

Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-03/dig...

There is a digital doomsday vault located in the Arctic, near the doomsday seed vault.

New 'Doomsday' vault for data to neighbour seed vault in Norway

Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017

Historically important documents and literature could be preserved for hundreds of years in a new vault that will neighbour the famous "Doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island in Norway.

MeterMan on November 2, 2025 at 11:27 pm

Idea: Digital doomsday vault

Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2024091...

It might not even be catastrophic events that do us in; we are already losing digital data at an alarming rate.

We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?

Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/artic

Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.