Our history on dying formats
I have a stack of cassette tapes sitting next to my home computer that (someday) I mean to convert to MP3 so they’ll last “forever”. I have a shelf full of video tapes languishing into obsolescence too. That’s why I enjoyed this article so much. Formats come and go so quickly now that it only takes a handful of years to expose as fruitless our efforts to preserve our work for posterity.
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