I recently helped with a data recovery effort at our company, where he found(stashed in a warehouse) CDs with the source code to some of our earliest games. Dat

I recently helped with a data recovery effort at our company, where he found(stashed in a warehouse) CDs with the source code to some of our earliest games. Dates on the CDs were around 1994-1998 era. And you know what? Those gold discs are all useless, completely unreadable. You know what still works? Those verbatim blue AZO discs, all of them read just fine 20+ years later. Of course treat it just as an anecdote, who knows what condition those discs were stored in over the last 20+ years, but yeah, all the gold ones we found were dead.