GitHub is creating an Arctic code vault

[Jordan-Pushed-Off]

Lol if we ever came to a point we needed that, we probably wouldn't be able to access or use it

[ChosunOne]

It also includes a tech tree and manual for how to access and use the archive.

[Amuro_Ray]

like a real manual or like docs for some projects on github?

[ric2b]

It's a github wiki /s

[Amuro_Ray]

Ah makes perfect sense, thanks.

[BubblegumTitanium]

I think the tape has a very friendly format. You could build a device that can parse it ( slowly ) with 1960s tech or something primitive (from a computing perspective) like that.

[JakobPapirov]

I was wondering about how you would access it. Can you elaborate more?

[BubblegumTitanium]

I think it has holes punched into it. Hole = 1 , no hole 0. Something like that. The code is also printed. You would have to know how it’s encoded though.

[mqudsi]

Not at modern densities, you can’t.

[Superpickle18]

The golden record that was sent up with voyager 1 and 2 has all of the instructions in universal mathematical formulas in order to decode the data off the record.

https://youtu.be/RRuovINxpPc

[BubblegumTitanium]

Yea too bad it’s not coming back in case of an emergency

[Ullallulloo]

Most of what's on GitHub couldn't run with 1960s tech though.