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Our Logo
The Eternal Star logo above illustrates the concept behind developing a permanent means of storing and displaying words, pictures and documents. It consists of a burst of binary digits flowing from a star. All material, be it language or pictures, can be broken into binary code.
For example, the words “Eternal Star” in binary code (to include the capital letters) equate to: 010001010111010001100101011100100110111001100001011011011000101001101110100
0110000101110010
Binary code allows us to store information written in any language. The Eternal Star database can store, and you can search and find, entries written in any European language, Korean, traditional and modern Chinese, Arabic … any language.
Similarly photographs and documents, including handwriting specimen, can be digitalized into binary code and stored in our system. The universal binary code ensures that material will be decipherable, probably for the duration of civilization.
Storing this material in redundant servers and on the internet system means that even the destruction of one system will leave copies elsewhere. The internet is like an octopus that is capable of re-growing its legs. If several are chopped off, the others remain and new ones grow! The internet is capable of surviving massive local and international disasters. Something your house, your photographs, and your precious document, cannot do, unless you protect them. Storing them on Eternal Star gives them the chance to survive and to be seen all over the world and throughout future generations
By having your precious memories scanned, digitalized, and placed on our system, you are preserving them for many future generations to come. Our system is financially secured by a trust fund managed by the Mercantile National Bank of Indiana, a subsidiary of the Harris Bank of Chicago. It is electronically secured by redundant hosting and offsite storage of our digital media. And it is perpetually available for future generations to see via the internet or the future successor of the internet system. A system that will undoubtedly use binary code for digital storage.
Figure 1. Gladys (Harmack) Forgey at age 3 in 1917 in the homemade clothing that her mom, Pearl (Thompson) Harmack, made for her.
Preserving memories of our generation for future generations
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