GitHub, the world's largest open-source software site, just had mounds of data stored in the permafrost chamber of an old coal mine deep in an Arctic mountain for 1,000 years
The old coal mine in Longyearbyen, Norway, where 21TB of GitHub data will be stored for more than 1,000 years.GitHub just stored a full archive of all current public repository data in a frozen Norwegian mountain.
Similar to how you'd back up a disk drive, GitHub is archiving all of its code to date to ensure it remains secure.Our successors 1,000 years into the future will be able to access data from what was the world's largest network of open-source software at the start of the 21st century.
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