40 yearold computers still in use 94
We'll need to build a (for the time being) planet-wide respository.
OK, let's call it 'the archive'.
You need a full distribution network for such a thing. A kind of union between cvs, usenet and bittorrent.. Plus some namespace resolution stuff. And it all must be distributed.
I have currently running my lab-museum 10base2 & 10baseF (10 mb-sec optical). I am trying to set up a...
Inclusion criterian can follow a usenet-like voting model.
With this 'archive' you check in digital items of some sort, give it a library card, and let it float in the system. If you want, say the FreeBSD port collection, or the proceedings of the afghan communist party you set up a subtree mirror at home. The downside is that others can go fetch from your system.
spit I don't know. I'm hoping that if I blow just right, it'll melt before I log off. That VROOMVROOM machine is just too big for...
But we can all lobby for our libraries, ISPs and separate organizations to actually carry the full archive. But they have access to separate resources for this. I would also subscribe to somewhere with a decent bandwidth that carry all the stuff I need, e.g. software, references etc.
It can also have a well defined web-ftp frontend for browsing.
Keep old generations (or at the very least; diff files to them) and split the authorites on content and storage.
Radical, and a bit socialist; but so is the deisgn of usenet.
-- mrr