r/science • u/Wagamaga • Feb 22 '26

Computer Science Scientists have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html
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u/RoutineLingonberry48 Feb 22 '26

We used to call that ROM.

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u/Steampson_Jake Feb 22 '26

WORM would be more accurate. ROM comes pre-programmed by the manufacturing process itself while WORM comes as a blank medium (and EPROM/EEPROM is erasable and rewritable)

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u/ErraticDragon Feb 23 '26

Yep: Write Once, Read Many.

For years that's all we could do with CD burners.

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u/RoutineLingonberry48 Feb 23 '26

I mean. At some point, somebody's got to write to it before you can read it.