The first practical idea about using plants as storage media was proposed by Karin Fister and Iztok Fister Jr. in 2013 when they were still undergraduate students at the University of Maribor (Slovenia). They were wondering where to store all of their digital information on a computer permanently. They soon started asking, "Wouldnwouldn't it be wise if we put all the data on the history of mankind in one stone, near a spruce or oak tree?". That was the flash for drawing a sketch of a practical procedure of how to store digital information in a plant.<ref>[http://www.storing-data-into-living-plant.net 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>
