The first practical idea about using plants as storage media was proposed by Karin Fister and Iztok Fister Jr. in 2013 when the two were still undergraduate the students at the University of Maribor (Slovenia). They wondered where to permanently store all of their digital information on a computer permanently. The two wrote on their website "Why can't we put all the data in the history of mankind in one stone, near spruce or oak...and that was the click."<ref>[http://www.storing-data-into-living-plant.net/experiment Storing data into living plant]</ref> Their first philosophical report that proposed this out-of-the-box-thinking was published in 2014.<ref name='Fister1'>Ljubic, K., Fister Jr., I. How to store Wikipedia into a forest tree: initial idea, Msivism 2014, pp. 45–52. 2014</ref>
