Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works

BBC News

Norway’s Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost town, is home to The Arctic World Archive (AWA), an underground vault for data storage. Customers pay to have their data stored on film in the vault, ensuring information survives technology obsolescence and time. Founder Rune Bjerkestrand leads the way inside the vault, where reels of film hold stored data for potentially hundreds of years.
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