You would be surprised, as I was, how much raw documents and primary sources much much older than 2000/1995 (to take your 20/25 year reference) are available, t

You would be surprised, as I was, how much raw documents and primary sources much much older than 2000/1995 (to take your 20/25 year reference) are available, thanks to various digitization efforts. Check my notes for some nice sources dating back to the 60s. (Not in my notes but just yesterday I stumbled upon the original 1990 memo by adobe co-founder John Warnock for the PDF project, Camelot. Great read) You are absolutely right that there’s so much more in boxes somewhere and in the mind of the people who were there, but as a starting point online archives are great. We can only encourage more digitization of more archives (it’s a lot or works, organizing and sorting even before scanning)