Is there a safer or more reliable method of data storage over a long period then punch cards?

Is there a safer or more reliable method of data storage over a long period then punch cards?

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Yes.

bury hard drive in ground

Esoterics might say put it in your DNA
Otherwise, I don't think punch card cardboard can outlast magnetic tapes

>Is there a safer or more reliable method of data storage over a long period then punch cards?
Ask the long term preservation library folks. Good paper can last for quite a while, especially if kept in an oxygen-free atmosphere. Vellum is known to be able to last centuries; there are records from the medieval era that far back and they're still readable (if you can handle the handwriting and the language changes).
Or you can etch your stuff into stone monoliths. Those can last millennia if the right stone is chosen. (Hint: not limestone, marble or sandstone. Think granite or basalt.)

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

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Water causes erosion though user

Put the rock into a waterproof box

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water will destroy all other storage media too.

5D discs made of etched quartz glass are stable at room temperature for 300 quintillion years and can store 360 TB
Let's see your cellulose based storage beat that

>magic rock that only exists in your imagination
Holds 0 bytes
>felt made from chewed up trees
Holds many bytes

Paper beats rock buddy. Always has.

Paper however is impervious to water
Schizo

Kind of nuts how literally all our understanding of egyptian language is based entirely on this one fucking rock that some frenchie just tripped on some day.

hear me out, stainless steel punch cards. That shit must last forever, right?

Imagine what's buried too deep to trip over

maybe but it's probably too impractical to be worth it
even very small files are thousands of bits long these days

this user hinted at the best preservation method: having a caretaker. in a philosophical sense, the data itself needs to be desirable to be self-preserving. or in a more general sense, it should have whatever combination of properties it takes to be self-preserving... and what do you end up with? pic related

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Jaz disk?

this but actually real

fuck anything more advanced than magnetic strips

>OP takes user's advice and buys several tonnes of granite monoliths from a local quarry
>OP rents heavy machinery and transports the monoliths to a safe place
>OP spends months and years carving hexadecimal data onto the monoliths to backup his porn
>Hundreds of thousands of years later alien researchers find his monoliths
>After months of research they decipher it and are greeted with the most disgusting grotesque porn imaginable
>ayylmao.jpg

fungus will eat it

Hey, I'm new to 4chud.

What about the fabled rock that 9gag buried, and us 1337 hackers uncovered and defaced?