[ih] Museum-quality archive for this list?

[touch at strayalpha.com]

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Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist
www.strayalpha.com

> On Nov 15, 2021, at 7:08 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
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> On 11/15/2021 6:57 PM, touch at strayalpha.com wrote:
>> I’ve contacted many more typical archive-friendly places, including the Computer History Museum, but nobody currently runs a list intended to be archival, so none were able to assist.
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> Joe, nice summary of issue.s  Thanks.
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but this seems a topic worthy of solution.  Not just for this list, of course.

It does, but the idea of having one’s online presence “passed on” is very recent (Apple’s ‘digital legacy’ program is claimed to arrive in IOS 15.2).

There are a few services that offer “permanent escrow” of data for various fees, but companies come and go - so YYMV.

Here’s the thing: this doesn’t exist IRL either. Bodily internment isn’t forever; cemeteries get bought and sold, sometimes even converted into other types of property (malls, homes, e.g. - Poltergeist). Same for museums - they come and go, collections are bought and sold and some disappear forever.

And remember - we’re not looking for a static archive; we’re really looking for a place we can operate AND be archival. They may be separate solutions, but have to work together.

Joe