The most famous examples of faith in the stability of records as a storage format are currently 15.2 billion miles and 12.7 billion miles from the Earth respectively. They are traveling at 38,026.77 mph and 34,390.98 mph relative to Earth, beyond the heliosphere in interstellar space. The Voyager Golden Records housed on the Voyager space probes, launched in 1977, are made from gold- and nickel-plated copper instead of vinyl. They contain greetings in 55 human languages; 26 musical recordings including the works of Blind Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry, and Johann Sebastian Bach; field recordings of nature; and 116 encoded images of life. Each record is designed to last over a billion years.
The Golden Record is the ultimate outlier, a small preview of what might be achieved if a society brought real resources to the preservation and curation of cultural production. Most removable storage is not designed to travel the cosmos and last for over a billion years.
[via Century-Scale Storage]
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