Video has emerged of GitHub's extraordinary frozen archive project: Millions of projects were saved on 02/02/2020 and there's a good reason why that date was chosen.

The idea of ​​preserving the Earth's most essential elements to keep them safe in the event of a catastrophe is not new: the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, for example, serves as a backup for more than a million seeds to prevent their extinction.

Not far from there is another crucial support: the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a joint initiative between the Norwegian state mining company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK) and the very long-term digital preservation provider Piql AS.



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