The Ark Β· the Memory

πŸ•― The Memory

Who your people were, how their voices sounded, and the letters they sealed for you. Everything on this page lives on this device only β€” nothing is uploaded, ever. Export the file and copy it to the seed-vault stick; that is how a family survives a machine.

🌳 The family book

no one recorded yet β€” start with yourself, then your parents.

πŸŽ™ The voices β€” record the elders while you can

Press record, ask one of the questions, and let them talk. The recording saves as a file on this device β€” it never touches any server. Name the files well: grandma-june-the-farm-1953.webm.

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  1. What is your earliest memory?
  2. How did you meet (their person)? What was the wedding like?
  3. What did your parents do all day? What did a normal Tuesday look like?
  4. What was the hardest year, and how did you get through it?
  5. What do you know that you're afraid will die with you?
  6. Sing the song your mother sang.

⏳ The time capsule β€” a letter that keeps itself sealed

Write to someone in the future β€” a child at eighteen, the family at your hundredth, whoever finds the stick. The page refuses to show it before its day.

Part of the Ark. Local-first by doctrine; the export file is plain JSON any future machine can read. πŸ”” ring the bell if anything misbehaves.