Hi, supreme retard here.

Would glass make for a good long-term data storage medium? I know shit like CDs and tapes last for mere years and decades before decaying, and obviously anything stored on a server only lasts as long as a server, so there's an issue with everything that currently exists in digital form not really lasting in the long term. But then I think about glass, and how it lasts for centuries, and how lasers can carve patterns into glass, and how reading patterns carved into a material is the way discs work anyways, and I think: Maybe glass could work for very, very long term storage? Archived bureaucratic stuff or preserved cultural works and shit like that, for centuries to come.

I'm mostly just trying to think of a way to preserve information for many, many years.