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Last updated 2024-10-18 17:13Z

Links for September 2024

• 84-24: restoring a vintage Mac - Michele Giorgi
• A Completely Dissected GZIP File - Joshua Davies
• A breakdown of a GIF decoder - Joshua Davies
• Bitten by Unicode – pyATL
• Dissecting the GZIP format - Joshua Davies
• Dublin Core, what is it good for? – This day's portion
• FFmpeg 7.1: a tons of codecs - Jean-Baptiste Kempf's Website
• Google Partners With Internet Archive To Link To Archives In Search - Slashdot
• Human genome stored on ‘everlasting’ memory crystal
• Inside the PDF File Format - Joshua Davies
• Memory of the World Programme - Wikipedia
• Memory of the World - UNESCO
• Parallel PNG Proposal - David Buchanan
• The History of CP/M - Gary Kildall
• The PERQ Computer - Graydon Hoare
• The Unicode Blog: Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 16.0
• The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools - The Future Is Now
• The sorry state of Java deserialization - marginalia.nu
• Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks - Internet Archive Blogs
• Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What it Means for Your Photos - PetaPixel
• Working on PDF files with Python - Joseph Basquin
• YAML is not a superset of JSON - Patrick Stevens

Links for August 2024

• A Starter’s guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs – SecNigma
• About Data - Jakob Voß
• CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good. - Matt Hodges
• DICOM Image Standard
• Emulating the early Macintosh floppy drive - Thomas
• Getting back into C programming for CP/M - Kevin Boone
• Hacking With PDF - 0xcybery
• Home Computer Museum - Interactief Computermuseum
• How Postgres stores data on disk - Drew Silcock
• How to Properly Archive Your Digital Files - WIRED
• Interval Parsing Grammars for File Format Parsing - Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
• Locarno Roundtable Discusses the State of Physical Media - Variety
• Olivetti Programma 101: at the origins of the Personal Computer - Inexhibit
• PC Floppy Copy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock
• Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr
• Tabular-JSON: JSON with tables
• To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands - Nieman Journalism Lab
• Web Design Museum: Discover old websites, apps and software
• Why CSV is still king - konbert
• WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, re-released for free - The Register
• EPUBCheck: the official conformance checker for EPUB publications - w3c

Links for July 2024

• An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender's signature World - retooling
• Carving ELF Files - Joren Vrancken
• Compact Discs With Hidden Pregap Tracks: How Did They Do It? - Tedium
• Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image - Paul Bourke
• Digital public archaeology: Excavating data from digs done decades ago and connecting with today’s communities - The Conversation
• Database of Dimensioned Drawings - Dimensions
• How archives can make or break a philosopher’s reputation - Aeon Essays
• How emojis conquered our online communication - Panorama
• Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks - BBC
• Lessons from Ancient File Systems - Preston Crow
• LibreOfficeKit API in action - LibreOffice Development Blog
• Old Crap Vintage Computing
• Old computer collection - Anders Piniesjö
• Reverse Engineering for Everyone
• The Graphics File Format Page - Martin Reddy
• The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman - The Old New Thing
• Why I prefer rST to markdown - Buttondown
• adithya-s-k/omniparse: Ingest, parse, and optimize any data format for enhanced compatibility with GenAI frameworks

Links for June 2024

• 2024-06-02 consumer electronics control - computer rip
• A Short History of CP/M-86 - Bradford Morgan White
• Can INI files be Unicode? Yes, they can, but it has to be your idea - The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen)
• Datenformate - Joint Library Network (GBV)
• Drawing Machines
• FlippyDrive Docs
• JSON BinPack
• Lord Kelvin’s Tide-Predicting Machine - IEEE Spectrum
• Making USB devices: end to end guide to your first gadget - Uros Popovic
• Marion Stokes, The Archivist Who Recorded 30 Years Of TV - All That's Interesting
• PiDP-10 - Obsolescence.dev
• Technical Marvels, Part 3: The Yupana – Communications of the ACM
• PostScript and Interpress: a comparison - The Mostly Color Channel
• The short, happy reign of CD-ROM - Fast Company
• WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI - Harvard Library Innovation Lab
• b2pf specification - Philip Hazel
• https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson-spec
• safe32-specification - kstenerud/safe-encoding

Links for May 2024

• A reasonable configuration language (RCL) - Ruud van Asseldonk
• Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running - Ars Technica
• Big Mess o' Wires
• Canon Cat - Old Vintage Computing Research
• Compuseum
• Computer Replicas as Time Capsules - Obsolescence.dev
• Decoding UTF8 with Parallel Extract - NRK
• Emoji history: the missing years  ⌘I  Get Info/Matt Sephton
• EpubPress - Read the web offline
• Evolution of the ELF object file format - MaskRay
• FILE-ID.DIZ Description - PC Micro
• File Signatures - Gary Kessler
• How macOS opens a file in the correct app - The Eclectic Light Company
• How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop - Unterminated
• Iconv, set the charset to RCE: Exploiting the glibc to hack the PHP engine (part 1) - Ambionics
• Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages - Pew Research Center
• Linking in the Permanent Web - Nikolas Goebel
• Meta String: A 37.5% space efficient string encoding than UTF-8 - Apache Fury
• Modularity: Enabling Interoperability and Competition - Mark Nottingham
• Moire, a simple markup language - Sergey Vartanov
• Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks - BBC
• Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames - Artnet
• skx/cpmulator: Golang CP/M emulator
• State of the Terminal - g.p. anders
• System Source Computer Museum
• The LaserDisc - Bradford Morgan White, Abort Retry Fail
• When QOI meets XZ - MaskRay
• You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings - Hacker News discussion
• You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings - viralinstruction
• bitsavers.org

Links for April 2024

• 10 > 64, in QR codes - Huon on the internet
• Digital Preservation Coalition Handbook
• First post: A history of online public messaging - Ars Technica
• FreeBee: AT&T UNIX PC emulator- Phil Pemberton
• Hello World - Lennon McLean
• How Not To Release Historic Source Code - OS/2 Museum
• I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festivals - Jason Scott
• Infinite Mac
• Introducing Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library - Google Open Source Blog
• List of JSON tools for command line – Ilya's blog
• Listen to world's first 'chat' between humans and whales - BBC
• Mobile Forensics – The File Format Handbook: Common File Formats and File Systems Used in Mobile Devices - SpringerLink
• Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective - Ars Technica
• RAR bytecode virtual machine - Tavis Ormandy
• Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks - Leontien Talboom
• The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island - WIRED
• The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk - IEEE Spectrum
• What even is a JSON Number? - Brian Terlson
• You can't just assume UTF-8 - csvbase

Links for March 2024

• Archiving data on paper with Golay error correcting code - John D. Cook
• China Breakthrough Promises Optical Discs That Store Hundreds of Terabytes - Slashdot
• Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets – Google Research Blog
• Friends don't let friends export to CSV - Robin Kåveland
• Hollywood Confronts Decaying Digital Movie and TV Archives - Hollywood Reporter
• Identifying software 2024 - GNU Guix Blog
• JPEG XL and the Pareto Front - Cloudinary
• JSON Canvas: An open file format for infinite canvas data.
• Millions of Research Papers at Risk of Disappearing From the Internet - Slashdot
• Pack: The most efficient way to pack files
• Scientists Create DVD-Sized Disk Storing 1 Petabit (125,000 Gigabytes) of Data - Slashdot
• Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV) - Hacker News
• The Centre for Computing History - Computer and Video Game Museum - Cambridge
• The Epson HX-20: A Contrarian’s View - Andrew Toone
• The birth of our system for describing web content - Aeon Essays
• Z85, a format for representing binary data as printable text - ZeroMQ RFC
• jsvine/pdfplumber: Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables - Github
• mammoth: docx to html/markdown converter - npm

Links for February 2024

• Character Encodings - Kreative Korp
• Control characters in ASCII and Unicode
• DVD’s New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit - IEEE Spectrum
• EXIF metadata and GPS location resolution - John D. Cook
• File formats for seismology - Seismic Data
• Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead - Ars Technica
• Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification - Google Open Source Blog
• Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany – alexwlchan
• Privacy and PDF metadata - John D. Cook
• The Retro Web
• The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it? - John Graham-Cumming
• The world's smallest PNG - Evan Hahn
• Two Stop Bits
• libE57: Software Tools for Managing E57 files (ASTM E2807 standard)

Links for January 2024

• 5-star Open Data
• A Million Ways to Die on the Web - Archiveteam
• A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place? - Al Jazeera
• A valid character to represent an invalid character - John D. Cook
• An introduction to the WARC file - Archive-It Blog
• Apache Hudi vs Delta Lake vs Apache Iceberg: Data Lakehouse Feature Comparison - OneHouse
• CSVW - CSV on the Web
• Can PDF Files Have Viruses? (And How to Avoid Them) - Catonmat
• Exploring object file formats - MaskRay
• FilePreviews
• GrayLog Extended Log Format (GELF)
• Hiew Hex Editor
• Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever - IGN
• OML: a CSV Alternative - Stenway@Github
• OS/2, vintage PC computing, and random musings - OS/2 Museum
• Open Table Formats Are Inevitable For Analytical Datasets - Ensemble
• Portable EPUBs - Hacker News
• Portable Web Documents - An Alternative to PDF based on HTML5 and Web Standards - Polar
• QuickTime as a Tape Archival Format - Eschatology
• RFC 4180 - Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files
• Read quoted-printable emails with qprint - Solene
• RoaringBitmap/RoaringFormatSpec: Specification of the compressed-bitmap Roaring format
• Should UTF-16 be considered harmful? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
• Rows of String Values (RSV Data Format) Specification: A Simple Binary Alternative to CSV - Stenway/RSV-Specification
• Stop Using CSV ! - Stenway on YouTube
• The unawareness of PNG and EXR - SCIENTIA
• UTF-8 Everywhere
• What’s the Value of 3 Million LPs in a Digital World? - WIRED
• What’s the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image? – Terence Eden’s Blog
• Why “a caret, euro, trademark” ’ in a file?
• dloss/binary-parsing: A list of generic tools for parsing binary data structures, such as file formats, network protocols or bitstreams - github
• store everything in text files - mnmlist

Links for December 2023

• Digital Negatives - Obsolete Thor
• Fixing Classical Cats; or, How I Got Tricked by 28-year-old Defensive Programming - The Future Is Now
• Growing the File Format Fam - The Signal
• History of the PDF - Hacker News
• How to crack a Binary File Format - Frans
• How to make almost any computer a modern-day PLATO terminal - Ars Technica
• I'm building a general-purpose data format for the modern age. The old ones are ... - Hacker News
• Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough - TechRadar
• Parsing an undocumented file format - Vivek Panyam
• RFC 7493 - The I-JSON Message Format
• Storage Media Forgotten - Hackaday
• Super Mario Bros. Glitch Levels Explained - YouTube
• The Hellish History of HTML: An incomplete and personal account - HTMHell
• The war of the workstations - The Register
• Thinking About Internet History - Jim Cowie
• Video of ceramic storage system prototype - TechRadar
• Want To Store a Message in DNA? That'll Be $1,000 - Slashdot
• WebP is so great… except it's not - Aurélien Pierre
• floppy.cafe
• https://github.com/QuPengfei/Technical-Overview-Of-AV1-Spec
• pyrustic/paradict: Streamable multi-format serialization with schema

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