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Storage is just a small part of the problem. Formats change all the time, and who knows if it's readable in 50 years?
by ks 19y ago
Storage is just a small part of the problem. Formats change all the time, and who knows if it's readable in 50 years?
- lsb 19y agothen it makes sense to store, along with the data, two codecs that will make a array of bitmaps and an uncompressed raw audio file. (project gutenberg, for example, always has a plain text version whenever there's a more elaborate format.)
- downer 19y agoThat's with historical proprietary formats.