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I would also add the social element - if you want your kids and grandkids to be able to read it, pass custody of the website well before you die (perhaps in a will?) and tell as many friends and family as you can. I know I would happily administer a deceased friend's website until i could no longer myself.

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But who will administer the site after you pass? It's much harder to justify the administering effort, when you never even knew the original guy.

Start a cult of data protectors, maybe your kids?

Adding money might help. We have a small scale investment in our cap table from a German family who have kept their money together for 650 years…

Seems like the greater feat would be keeping your family size small over 650 years. Most any level of wealth will start to fade if you have to split it amongst 1,000 heirs.

Hence the effective disinheriting of second or third sons of noble houses (the old saying was something like heir, army, priest).

In where I live, there's a sweet wine made from a grape from greece, which recipe and genetics has been conserved for a few hundred years because one rich guy stated so in his will, so he gave away a building (was an hospital, now a museum), and in exchange, their heirs must recieve 2 boxes of 6 bottles of such wine each year, or otherwise the building lease is off.

Something like that might work

What’s the name of the wine, and how can you get some? I’m very curious!

Ha, I didn't expect this to be one of my top rated comments.

It is very good wine indeed. It's called Malvasia.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvas%C3%ADa_(uva)

There's a dry and sweet version, I prefer the sweet one. https://cellerdelhospital.cat/producte/malvasia-dolca/

They do ship internationally it seems, this one is the one from the story =)

The origin city of the grape variety, which came by ship to my city at the time, was monemvasia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monemvas%C3%ADa

Thank you for sharing this information. My order is in.

Super interesting, encoding information inside of a lease contract. It's almost blockchain-esque!

Depending where you’re at in life, you could probably raise your kids to understand that keeping the site online is paramount.

Similar to those wise families that teach their kids to take care of their elders.

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