The Forever Vault

A private venture solicits information from people. It will be preserved as long as humanly possible. Each person only gets one short paragraph, and it costs a moderate fee. It is decried as a scam, but becomes a popular institution over decades. It is made public, then privatized again. There are data/identity thefts, selling of "influences," and return memes (people pay other people to write their paragraph about them, but then others find out and start adding warring paragraphs [permanent Wiki]). People quickly run out of space, and become obsessed with getting more. The rules are changed to allow multiple paragraphs, then more. Storage space has become a non-issue so the vault becomes a useless information dump. Control of the text changes hands, and the integrity of the data is under debate. The project fails. A group of people take the core of the information, the first millions of paragraphs, and reproduce it as much as possible. It is sent throughout space, in beams and rays and physical objects. It goes through wormholes and irregularities in space, ending up in far dimensions. It is what it is.