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Last updated 2025-04-02 16:41Z

Links for March 2025

• A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset - Ken Shirriff
• A love letter to the CSV format - Hacker News
• A love letter to the CSV format - medialab/xan (GitHub)
• Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data - Ars Technica
• Building a Personal Archive With Hoarder - James Ravenscroft
• Computer Archeology
• Confessions of an Information Hoarder - Charlie Warzel
• Convert Linux to Windows - Philip Bohun
• Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C - Chris Wellons
• Technical history of Acorn - Robert McMordie
• The Sarnoff Collection - The College of New Jersey
• The Virtual Keypunch: Make Your Personal Punch Card
• The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives - Doug Brown
• Why CDs Failed to Stand the Test of Time - How-To Geek
• Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust - Martijn Faassen

Links for February 2025

• 1972 UNIX V2 'Beta' Resurrected - Yufeng Gao
• 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome - TechRadar
• Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov - 404media
• Fearsome File Formats (YouTube) - Ange Albertini
• How (not) to sign a JSON object - Latacora
• How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes -The Conversation
• If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown - Piotr Migdal
• Inside imessage-exporter: Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format - Christopher Sardegna
• Magika: a tool to detect common file content types, using deep learning.
• Reverse Engineering PowerPoint's XML to Build a Slide Generator - Listen Labs
• Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji - Paul Butler
• Sparrow: A Modern C++ Implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar format - Johan Mabille
• The VGHF Library opens in early access - Video Game History Foundation
• mdq: like jq but for Markdown - Yuval Shavit

Links for January 2025

• Branchless UTF-8 Encoding - Charles Eckman
• Century-Scale Storage - Harvard Library Innovation Lab
• Commodore Amiga 1000: the first perfect computer - Celso Martinho
• Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs - Goto 10 Retro
• Computer History Links - Rob Landley
• EFGAMP: The official website of the European Federation of Game Archives, Museum and Preservation Projects
• FFmpeg By Example
• Files, Formats, and Derivatives - Internet Archive Help Center
• Flip phones and floppy discs on display at Tokyo's "extinct media" museum - Youtube
• How a UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet - University of California
• International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
• JPEG XL: What It Is And Why You Should Care - PetaPixel
• Learn MetaPost
• Pesto, the PST reader
• Preserves: an Expressive Data Language
• Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format - DuckDB
• Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM - Nicole Branagan
• Samsung and Google's New Spatial Audio Format Will Take On Dolby Atmos - Slashdot
• Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms - Moncef Abboud
• The Most Elegant Configuration Language - Dmitrii Kovanikov
• The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories - Post Game Content
• The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month - PC Gamer
• Trigraphs - Microsoft Learn
• WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI! - Orange Tsai
• ZX Spectrum SCR to PNG Converter

Links for December 2024

• A data table thousands of years old - Robert Mesibov
• Adobe Photoshop 7 Color File Format (.ACO files) - Larry Tesler
• Adobe Photoshop File Formats Specification - Adobe
• Borewit/music-metadata: Stream and file based music metadata parser for node
• DS4SD/docling: Get your documents ready for gen AI
• DVST Graphic Terminals - Vintagetek
• Digital Preservation Is Not Keeping Up With the Growth of Scholarly Knowledge - Slashdot
• Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test? - Jeff Moser
• IBM’s Executive Terminal Was a War Room for Top Managers - IEEE Spectrum
• ISO 8583: The language of credit cards - Increase
• Illustrated Media Format Guides - Archives of Tomorrow
• Is stuff online worth saving? - Hacker News
• Is stuff online worth saving? - Ruben Schade
• Learn how to create HTML/ZIP/PNG polyglot files in JavaScript - Gildas Lormeau
• MediaInfo Parameter Definitions - Ashley Blewer
• microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
• Nimble Markup Language - Eric Wastl
• Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? - Miguel Young de la Sota
• Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format
• Showcasing IBM’s History of Innovation Through Archival Footage - Myriad
• The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet - The Public Domain Review
• What happens when the internet disappears? - The Verge

Links for November 2024

• Apple Macintosh before System 7
• Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever - Hacker News
• Charset="WTF-8" - Hacker News
• CloudEvents specification
• Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders - Tinfoil.com
• Essential Guide to 3D File Formats - 3D Cloud
• Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city - Johns Hopkins Hub
• Ext2 - OSDev Wiki
• History of Hangul Part I - zKorean
• Manual for PUB (a markup language in 1971) - Larry Tesler
• MPXJ: A Java library for MPX files
• Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Masters Degree Program - NYU
• The Internet Gopher from Minnesota - Abort, retry, fail
• Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should - Robb Knight
• Understanding MARTI: A New Metadata Framework for AI - Zeldman
• Unicode characters that expand or constract when the case is changed - rendello
• Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language" - xy2
• What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? - The Old New Thing
• Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) - Jens Oliver Meiert

Links for October 2024

• A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase - The Old New Thing
• Booting Sun SPARC Servers - Sidneys1.com
• Character Amnesia in China
• DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
• Data Lifeboat - Flickr Foundation
• Dookie Demastered
• Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably - ryanliptak.com
• Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX - jreyesr's blog
• Hayagriva file format
• I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius - YouTube
• Internet Archive: Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle by Record Labels - Rolling Stone
• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t - Ars Technica
• Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards - John Graham-Cumming
• Journal of Digital History
• Meet The Optical Data Format You’ve Never Heard Of Before - Hackaday
• Mobile Phone Museum
• Opening Compact File Set (CFS) files in Linux - Terence Eden
• Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)
• Smashing the limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X - fabulous.systems
• Tech Innovations to make the Tibetan Language a First-class Citizen in the Digital World - Buddhist Digital Resource Center
• The First Transistor Radio: Engineering the Regency TR-1 - IEEE Spectrum
• Unicode shenanigans: Martine écrit en UTF-8 - Lysxia
• Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch - Zuplo Blog
• Using static websites for tiny archives – alexwlchan
• VHS-Decode Project Could Help Archival Efforts - Hackaday
• Vortex: A toolkit for working with compressed Arrow in-memory, on-disk, and over-the-wire - github.com/spiraldb/vortex

Links for September 2024

• 84-24: restoring a vintage Mac - Michele Giorgi
• A Completely Dissected GZIP File - Joshua Davies
• A breakdown of a GIF decoder - Joshua Davies
• Bitten by Unicode – pyATL
• Dissecting the GZIP format - Joshua Davies
• Dublin Core, what is it good for? – This day's portion
• FFmpeg 7.1: a tons of codecs - Jean-Baptiste Kempf's Website
• Google Partners With Internet Archive To Link To Archives In Search - Slashdot
• Human genome stored on ‘everlasting’ memory crystal
• Inside the PDF File Format - Joshua Davies
• Memory of the World Programme - Wikipedia
• Memory of the World - UNESCO
• Parallel PNG Proposal - David Buchanan
• The History of CP/M - Gary Kildall
• The PERQ Computer - Graydon Hoare
• The Unicode Blog: Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 16.0
• The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools - The Future Is Now
• The sorry state of Java deserialization - marginalia.nu
• Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks - Internet Archive Blogs
• Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What it Means for Your Photos - PetaPixel
• Working on PDF files with Python - Joseph Basquin
• YAML is not a superset of JSON - Patrick Stevens

Links for August 2024

• A Starter’s guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs – SecNigma
• About Data - Jakob Voß
• CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good. - Matt Hodges
• DICOM Image Standard
• Emulating the early Macintosh floppy drive - Thomas
• Getting back into C programming for CP/M - Kevin Boone
• Hacking With PDF - 0xcybery
• Home Computer Museum - Interactief Computermuseum
• How Postgres stores data on disk - Drew Silcock
• How to Properly Archive Your Digital Files - WIRED
• Interval Parsing Grammars for File Format Parsing - Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
• Locarno Roundtable Discusses the State of Physical Media - Variety
• Olivetti Programma 101: at the origins of the Personal Computer - Inexhibit
• PC Floppy Copy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock
• Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr
• Tabular-JSON: JSON with tables
• To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands - Nieman Journalism Lab
• Web Design Museum: Discover old websites, apps and software
• Why CSV is still king - konbert
• WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, re-released for free - The Register
• EPUBCheck: the official conformance checker for EPUB publications - w3c

Links for July 2024

• An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender's signature World - retooling
• Carving ELF Files - Joren Vrancken
• Compact Discs With Hidden Pregap Tracks: How Did They Do It? - Tedium
• Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image - Paul Bourke
• Digital public archaeology: Excavating data from digs done decades ago and connecting with today’s communities - The Conversation
• Database of Dimensioned Drawings - Dimensions
• How archives can make or break a philosopher’s reputation - Aeon Essays
• How emojis conquered our online communication - Panorama
• Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks - BBC
• Lessons from Ancient File Systems - Preston Crow
• LibreOfficeKit API in action - LibreOffice Development Blog
• Old Crap Vintage Computing
• Old computer collection - Anders Piniesjö
• Reverse Engineering for Everyone
• The Graphics File Format Page - Martin Reddy
• The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman - The Old New Thing
• Why I prefer rST to markdown - Buttondown
• adithya-s-k/omniparse: Ingest, parse, and optimize any data format for enhanced compatibility with GenAI frameworks

Links for June 2024

• 2024-06-02 consumer electronics control - computer rip
• A Short History of CP/M-86 - Bradford Morgan White
• Can INI files be Unicode? Yes, they can, but it has to be your idea - The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen)
• Datenformate - Joint Library Network (GBV)
• Drawing Machines
• FlippyDrive Docs
• JSON BinPack
• Lord Kelvin’s Tide-Predicting Machine - IEEE Spectrum
• Making USB devices: end to end guide to your first gadget - Uros Popovic
• Marion Stokes, The Archivist Who Recorded 30 Years Of TV - All That's Interesting
• PiDP-10 - Obsolescence.dev
• Technical Marvels, Part 3: The Yupana – Communications of the ACM
• PostScript and Interpress: a comparison - The Mostly Color Channel
• The short, happy reign of CD-ROM - Fast Company
• WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI - Harvard Library Innovation Lab
• b2pf specification - Philip Hazel
• https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson-spec
• safe32-specification - kstenerud/safe-encoding

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