On building video game vaults
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rynlingPlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history
https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstations-extraordinary-effort
Fredley’s talk covered the servers and underground mineshafts he and his team are using to save builds of games and scores of other digital artifacts from PlayStation’s past. He also talked about the logistical challenges of their effort and the value of preservation.
Apparently Sony employed a team of specialists to preserve its thirty-year digital history in mineshafts near Las Vegas and Liverpool. I mean, they could just as easily open the data to public digital archives, but still. That's cool as hell.
By the way, storing data (digital or otherwise) in old mineshafts isn't as uncommon as you'd think. In fact, Elon Musk recently tried to "shut down" a big underground facility called Iron Mountain, which houses a bunch of paper records for the federal government under a tiny mining town north of Pittsburgh called Boyers. He wasn't successful of course, butI just think it would be neat if the next Silent Hill game
https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstations-extraordinary-effort
Fredley’s talk covered the servers and underground mineshafts he and his team are using to save builds of games and scores of other digital artifacts from PlayStation’s past. He also talked about the logistical challenges of their effort and the value of preservation.
Apparently Sony employed a team of specialists to preserve its thirty-year digital history in mineshafts near Las Vegas and Liverpool. I mean, they could just as easily open the data to public digital archives, but still. That's cool as hell.
By the way, storing data (digital or otherwise) in old mineshafts isn't as uncommon as you'd think. In fact, Elon Musk recently tried to "shut down" a big underground facility called Iron Mountain, which houses a bunch of paper records for the federal government under a tiny mining town north of Pittsburgh called Boyers. He wasn't successful of course, but
