The team of the largest IT project hosting service GitHub, which was bought by Microsoft a couple of years ago, reported
What does it mean
Even last year, GitHub representatives statedabout plans to store all data in an Arctic storage facility. The trip to the Arctic was scheduled for February, but due to the coronavirus outbreak it had to be postponed. And on July 8, the open source code collection was successfully “buried.”
Essentially, the storage is an ordinary metalcloset, but it is located at a depth of 250 meters in a former coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago in the permafrost zone beyond the Arctic Circle. The repository was first used in October last year: the CEO of GitHub personally delivered a reel of source code for Linux, Android and 6,000 important open-source applications, as well as Vatican archives, real estate records in Brazil, Italian films and even a secret sauce recipe for an unnamed burger.
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Currently 21 TB of data has been recorded on 186 filmspiqlFilm reels. This is a digital light-sensitive film that can be read by a computer or a person with a magnifying glass. It will be able to survive for 1000 years and will withstand a nuclear war or apocalypse.
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The archive is accompanied by a special manual,which will locate each project and explain how to recover the data. There are also reels of the technical history and cultural value of the content, as well as explanations of the foundations of modern computer science, computing, and open source development. As a result, future generations will be able to learn what our world was like and be able to recreate computers and technology.
Currently, projects whose code was included in the archive are marked on the GitHub website with the “Arctic Code Vault Contributor” mark.
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