Just no one can find it
Missed opportunity to make the world’s smallest rickroll
2 terabytes of data could fit within the area of a single A4 sheet of paper
Unless it can be paper thin this does not look better than magnetic tape. Moreover, would the handling of the material be safe from handling? I reckon you could scratch it pretty easily.
Of course this is just a theoretical exercise. Technically, there’s nothing in a QR code’s algorithm or the mathematics that prevents it from scaling infinitely. The error correction algorithm even allows up to 30% of the code to be damaged and still retrieve the data.
Practically though… Well, given it 's smaller than bacteria, paper looks more like a forrest(of plant fibers) at that scale. Paper just doesn’t support that kind of resolution.
This is just a ploy to get me to buy a new phone with a better camera isn’t it?
For the lazy, it resolves to: https://www.tuwien.at/en/mwbw/wwwt/ww/ws
Vienna loves a W in a link
Binary Eye says ‘no code detected’ so back to the drawing board boys
Could microfiche make a comeback with this?
Optar would be a much better choice than QR codes if you want to store lots of data on microfiche. It stores about 200 kB per page.
I remember seeing that years ago, wanted to make like a photoresist mask to etch it into metal.
These days you could probably feed it to a laser engraver, get some nice depth on a thicker sheet of e.g. aluminium, would be a nice display piece at least.
Nanofiche
cat fiche
The smaller the more easily damaged, right? The uffington horse approach will last longer than the website it points to.
Mount Rushmore but with a QR code linking to a defunkt ad page.
