It might be very problematic to read multimedia files from 15 years ago, weren't those the days of 'codec packs' and every downloaded movie seeming to require a

It might be very problematic to read multimedia files from 15 years ago, weren't those the days of 'codec packs' and every downloaded movie seeming to require a different one ? But at least the multimedia files (and archive formats) were designed to be interchangeable between applications. '.DOC' word docs were basically a binary dump of its internal data structures - there was no intention of it being interchangeable with any other application, and it showed.