recommended reading & food for thought:
“I tried to find a way to preserve code for 69 years (this is not a joke)”
https://museumofscreens.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/how-to-preserve-code-for-69-years-this-is-not-a-joke/
it starts with this seemingly simple premise (let’s make a digital time capsule! yay!) but quickly falls down a confusing hole of data decay, the sad impermanent nature of digital work, and how preservation of digital art seems impossible currently.
#digitalArt #preservation #games
“I tried to find a way to preserve code for 69 years (this is not a joke)”
https://museumofscreens.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/how-to-preserve-code-for-69-years-this-is-not-a-joke/
it starts with this seemingly simple premise (let’s make a digital time capsule! yay!) but quickly falls down a confusing hole of data decay, the sad impermanent nature of digital work, and how preservation of digital art seems impossible currently.
#digitalArt #preservation #games
I tried to find a way to preserve code for 69 years (this is not a joke)
How do you preserve code for more than half a century? I am not talking about companies solving technical problems to secure their data, I am talking about you, a solo developer. You developed a ga…Museum of Screens