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July 21, 2012 05:05 pm

Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years?


New submitter accet87 writes "We are celebrating the Silver Jubilee of our graduation next month and have come up with an idea where we will build an air-tight chest in which each of us will deposit something and will open the chest only on our Golden Jubilee, i,e, after another 25 years. I want to understand what kind of items can be safely stored for 25 years and what kind of precautions are required to be taken. I am sure things like paper, non ferrous metallic objects, wood etc will hold up well. What about data storage electronically? I don't think CD/DVDs, etc will be usable. Even if the data is retained, reading it in 2037 may be a challenge."

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