GitHub arctic code vault

[nicbrats]

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but this spring, GitHub deployed its Arctic Code Vault, situated in a former coal mine on Svalbard (Norwegian arctic territory), near the global seed vault. The code vault stores every repository that was on GitHub at the time (2nd of Feb., 2020), printed on special physical media (which resembles QR and barcodes), which is supposed to last for 1,000 years. Any thoughts? I think it's exciting!

 

Here's a video posted by GitHub on YouTube:

 

And here's the official program website:

https://archiveprogram.github.com/ 

[harryk]

3 hours ago, nicbrats said:

The code vault stores every repository that was on GitHub at the time (2nd of Feb., 2020),

To clarify not every repo was included. I don't think anyone needs to be archiving my troves of garbage code.

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The 02/02/2020 snapshot archived in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault will sweep up every active public GitHub repository, in addition to significant dormant repos. The snapshot will include every repo with any commits between the announcement at GitHub Universe on November 13th and 02/02/2020, every repo with at least 1 star and any commits from the year before the snapshot (02/03/2019 - 02/02/2020), and every repo with at least 250 stars.