GitHub’s move towards the Future

Steps to a better Future


In this generation, every developer is influenced by Open Source. GitHub is the home for all open source software out there. GitHub made their move towards preserving some of the revolutionary open source projects like Linux. These projects tend to get lost as time flies by. Some technical errors may occur, or a natural disaster may harm the storage units, and many more. We will be preparing for any disasters.

GitHub Buries Huge Data Archive At The North Pole For Future Humans

So, GitHub is going to archive all popular public repositories on github.com and put it in a vault in the Arctic. Wait, are they just going to take a backup of the code? Let’s see how they planned the Archive Program.

On 2nd February 2020, GitHub recorded, what they call a snapshot, of all popular public repositories on GitHub. This snapshot is a single frame view of the entire project. In association with Microsoft Research’s Project Silica, the snapshots will be printed onto a quartz glass with lasers. The entire archive is very deep into earth, hence eliminating any demerits due to the cold climate. On the date, GitHub swept snapshots of every public repository that has at least 1 star and any commits in the year before, and all repositories with more than 250 stars. Most of the data will be stored as QR codes, for more density. 

Their statement on how this archive will be used, is that the ‘Future Brains’ may get an idea on how people from 2000’s dealt with a certain problem. This code may also be used for reverse engineering many more inventions. Also, this archive could be of great help on a post-apocalyptic world. Humans in a new generation will not suffer without solutions for problems which we solved. GitHub in collaboration with many archaeologists, historians, archival scientists, and many more fields, are working to make this program even more useful to the future, such as survival tips, survival tools, and more.

Like this, we humans are preparing for anything that might happen the next day. Thus, we all can live a peaceful and happy life, without worrying about tomorrow. That’s it for this post, farewell!

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