> Imagine any company on earth having five-thousand blog posts worth of content. At the end of the day what is the only format that can be guaranteed "readable"

> Imagine any company on earth having five-thousand blog posts worth of content. At the end of the day what is the only format that can be guaranteed "readable" in 5-10-20 years time, when some internal analyst wants to find out what people have been posting? I have over 3,000+ posts for my blog [1] and I can answer that: HTML. All my posts are stored in HTML [2]. A few years ago I started using my own markup language (a mashup of Markdown and Org Mode) but I never store anything in that format; I only store the rendered HTML output. That way, I don't get stuck with a markup style that I no longer like. Also, I don't see Microsoft Word going away anytime soon. Every other developer at $JOB writes documentation in Microsoft Word [3]. On a corporate managed Windows laptop. Joy. [1] http://boston.conman.org/ http://boston.conman.org/ I've been blogging since December 1999. [2] Each post as a file. The storage format has not changed at all in 22 years. [3] I inadverently found myself working for an enterprise company when the company I was hired at got bought out.