The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [PDF]
A 2015 paper by Long Tien Nguyen and Alan Kay with a proposal for digital preservation.
We discuss the problem of running today’s software decades,centuries, or even millennia into the future.
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Unraveling The JPEG
A deep, deep, deep dive into the JPEG format. Best of all, it’s got interactive explanations you can tinker with, a la Nicky Case or Bret Victor.
Friday, March 30th, 2018
Putting Civilization in a Box Means Choosing Our Legacy
A run-down of digital preservation technologies for very, very long-term storage …in space.