How Does This Database Contains All YOUR Files?
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There is a database that contains every file that has been or will be created. Every text document, recording, image, video, model, spreadsheet, program, operating system, anything that can be digitized exists within the Database of Damascus.
You may be familiar with the short story by Luis Jorge Borges "The Library of Babel" or the online version which also features the Babel Image Archive over at https://libraryofbabel.info/, but what if instead of text and images, what was in our database is raw binary data?
With a simple generation algorithm, a database that can contain every single file can be created. The result is a database that holds the set of all things digital, which is everything that can be represented by binary data on our computer systems.
But what good are these files if we don't know what they are for? What is the purpose of a book that is unreadable, essentially random? Perhaps it's that the very presence of meaning in our everyday books and files is the evidence that there was some logical, reasonable effort put towards their current form.
Resources:
Try the Database of Damascus: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/DatabaseOfDamascus
More projects: https://notin.tokyo
Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/
Babel Image Archives: http://babelia.libraryofbabel.info/
Video resources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fractal_animation_with_music_4K_UHD_60_FPS.webm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zooming_in_on_the_interacting_galaxy_system_NGC_5291_(video).webm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_the_Earth_from_the_ISS_(8K).webm
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