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summary
Recreates the opening of Powers of Ten and uses that scale to argue the internet is physical — fiber cables dominate and the theoretical fastest round‑the‑world signal in fiber is about 90 milliseconds. Cites research showing a web page’s average lifespan is 100 days and Google products average four years, lists media in Swiss “Fort Knox” (paper, microfilm, floppy, CD, Blu‑ray, USB) and the Long Now’s 10,000‑year clock, and urges keeping canonical HTML copies, using IndieWeb principles and distributed backups.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Powers of Ten
- 4:29The Physical Internet
- 7:03The History of Timekeeping
- 10:01The Longitude Problem
- 13:40Stock and Flow
- 16:05Digital Preservation
- 20:57Access and Preservation
- 23:29The Indie Web Movement
- 26:43Time Capsules
- 29:17The Longevity of HTML
- 32:23Backwards Compatibility
- 35:32Designing for the Future
- 38:45Lessons from CERN
- 42:13Conclusion
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