The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is a data repository preserved in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a very-long-term archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain.
The archive is located in a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago, closer to the North Pole than the Arctic Circle. GitHub will capture a snapshot of every active public repository on 02/02/2020 and preserve that data in the Arctic Code Vault.
Servers and flash drives aren’t durable enough for this purpose, so the data is encoded on what look like old-school movie reels, each weighing a few pounds and stored in a white plastic container about the size of a pizza box. It’s basically microfilm. With the help of a magnifying (quartz) glass, you—or, say, a band of End Times survivors—can see the data.
What could be the reason for the sudden rush?
Watch video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o
Read full article at:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-13/microsoft-apocalypse-proofs-open-source-code-in-an-arctic-cave?utm_source=pocket-newtab
For more information on the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, and the other archival projects GitHub is working on visit:
https://archiveprogram.github.com/