Inheritance: The Arctic Code Vault

Deep inside an abandoned coal mine in the Arctic, there are 186 reels of photographic film holding millions of software projects. Some of that code runs the internet. Some of it is unfinished homework. In 2020, GitHub put it all there, hoping it would survive for a thousand years. But how do you preserve software for someone who may never have seen a computer? And why go to such extraordinary lengths to save it in the first place? In this episode The Arctic Code Vault: How an abandoned...