There may be more modern projects, but there's also "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe" at https://www.lockss.org
When you say personal archives, I wonder a little about what we'd lose to filtering by people who know they're building an archive for posterity, versus people in the future rediscovering things that were safely forgotten for some long span of time.
At the delta of personal archives and projects like this, I imagine something a little like SETI or folding for home archival (is this just describing IPFS?), but I think one of the challenges is how we preserve the right kind of data. I did some spring-data-cleaning this year while building a new system, and one of my tasks was addressing duplicate files. This forced me to confront hundreds of gigabytes of VM images, snapshots, and massive piles of duplicate files from various installations of Ruby and Python.
But perhaps I underestimate the value of even the duplicate VM images or language installs. Perhaps, centuries hence, researchers will hopefully sift yottabyte of data looking for all of the dependencies to successfully resurrect applications they need to experience in order to understand references to them in well-stewarded tweets, posts, or articles.
When you say personal archives, I wonder a little about what we'd lose to filtering by people who know they're building an archive for posterity, versus people in the future rediscovering things that were safely forgotten for some long span of time.
At the delta of personal archives and projects like this, I imagine something a little like SETI or folding for home archival (is this just describing IPFS?), but I think one of the challenges is how we preserve the right kind of data. I did some spring-data-cleaning this year while building a new system, and one of my tasks was addressing duplicate files. This forced me to confront hundreds of gigabytes of VM images, snapshots, and massive piles of duplicate files from various installations of Ruby and Python.
But perhaps I underestimate the value of even the duplicate VM images or language installs. Perhaps, centuries hence, researchers will hopefully sift yottabyte of data looking for all of the dependencies to successfully resurrect applications they need to experience in order to understand references to them in well-stewarded tweets, posts, or articles.