The Digital Rosetta Stone
	 Colossus: The Computer That Helped Win World War II - IEEE Spectrum 	 Copy That Floppy! - DigiPres.org 	 Electronic Plastic: a museum of handheld and tabletop games from the 1970s and 1980s 	 Extinct Media Museum Tokyo 	 Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses - Tom's Hardware 	 How proprietary formats have become Microsoft's main tool…
	 Appreciating Exif - Brent Fitzgerald 	 Can we preserve knowledge … forever? - TED Radio Hour 	 F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future - github.com 	 Google Cloud Introduces Open Knowledge Format (OKF): A Vendor-Neutral Markdown Spec for Giving AI Agents Curated Context - MarkTechPost 	 Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from…
	 Charcuterie: A Visual Unicode Explorer 	 Database 2025 Year in Review: File Format Battleground - Andy Pavlo 	 Document formats: a mystery to many - TDF Community Blog 	 FIM: fbi improved (lightweight customizable image viewer) - nongnu 	 Knitting file formats 	 Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code - ZDNET 	 Quarkdown:…
	 Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" - Ars Technica 	 PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes - Christopher Drum 	 Preserving Pixter - Dmitry Grinberg 	 The Analog Computer Museum 	 The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s) - Hackaday 	 The Virtual OS Museum 	 Unraveling the Web's Story - The History of the Web 	 What It Takes to…
	 ASCII and Unicode quotation marks - Markus Kuhn 	 Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record - Electronic Frontier Foundation 	 ENIAC, the General-Purpose Digital Computer, Is 80 - IEEE Spectrum 	 Gzpeek, a tool to parse gzip metadata - Evan Hahn 	 How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten: Methodology &…
	 A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format - DBG.RE 	 A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs - PDF Association 	 CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild 	 Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle - Dmitry Brant 	 Guide to SDF+MSDF Fonts - Red Blob Games 	 Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format - Gwern Branwen 	 Hard problems in social media archiving -…
I've been wanting to upgrade the rather plain Unicode Character Search page and finally got around to working on it. I wrote it using Tabulator , a very nice JavaScript grid widget. The new UI is at UnicodeSearch.org : let me know what you think! I also used Tabulator for a new Emoji search UI at EmojiSearch.org .
	 AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0 - Alliance for Open Media 	 AnyBlox: a framework for reading arbitrary datasets using lightweight WebAssembly decoders bundled with the data - Github 	 Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Vast Collection - CHM 	 Data Foundation 	 FASTA Format for Nucleotide Sequences - National Library of…
	 4 formats better than PDF for storing your documents - XDA 	 A vector graphics workstation from the 70s - Rik te Winkel 	 Battle of Codecs - JPEG-XL 	 Daninet/mtxt: A human-writable text format for musical notes, timing, and expression - GitHub 	 Drawing with zero-width characters- Ben Swerdlow 	 Fedora: flexible, standards-based, open-source repository software built to…
	 52 year old data tape could contain Unix history - The Register 	 Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust - Google Open Source Blog 	 CSV on the Web: A Primer - W3C 	 Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage 	 Duper: a human-friendly extension of JSON 	 Frank Gasking on preserving "lost" games - Spillhistorie.no…
	 Binary Formats Gallery - Hacker News 	 Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks - Tom's Hardware 	 Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived - Internet Archive 	 Converted school bus turned into mobile retro computing museum - Tom's Hardware 	 Data Format Description Language - Wikipedia 	 Digital Preservation Services - CLOCKSS…
	 6NF File Format - Sergey Prokhorenko 	 AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next Generation Video Codec AV2 - Alliance for Open Media 	 Early Xerox products and history - Xeroxnostalgia.com 	 File format for age encrypted files - Community Cryptography Specification Project 	 Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice and free formats -…
	 40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore - Paul Lefebvre 	 A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package - Ken Shirriff 	 A global look at teletext - text-mode.org 	 Apple-1 Registry list 	 BoundaryML/baml: The AI framework that adds the engineering to prompt engineering 	 Docling 	 Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems -…
	 A brand new 68k Mac emulator - OldBytes Space 	 Bedrock: a compact and portable 8-bit computer system, designed to last forever - Ben Bridle 	 FastLanes file format - GitHub 	 From XML to JSON to CBOR - The CBOR, dCBOR, and Gordian Envelope Book 	 Hungarian library is fighting to save books from beetles - NPR 	 Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library -…
	 Carnegie Mellon is Saving Old Software from Oblivion - IEEE Spectrum 	 Cassette Data Storage From The 1970s - Hackaday 	 DiffX: Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format 	 Flashpoint Archive 	 How JPEG Became the Internet’s Image Standard - IEEE Spectrum 	 Magnetic Tape Storage Technology - ACM Transactions on Storage 	 Manx: catalog of manuals for old computers…
	 The People Stuck Using Ancient Windows Computers- Slashdot 	 Lance Formats - Lance documentation 	 Lottie: an open format for animated vector graphics 	 Neo Geo Architecture: A Practical Analysis - Rodrigo Copetti 	 On File Formats - Jari Komppa 	 Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme - The Register 	 The strange world of Japan's…
	 AV1 could improve streaming, so why isn’t everyone using it? - The Verge 	 Agent File (.af): An open file format for serializing stateful agents with persistent memory and behavior - letta-ai/agent-file 	 Bioinformatic File Format & Their Use Cases - Form Bio 	 CONL: "markdown" for your config files - Conrad Irwin 	 Camera Makers Defend Proprietary RAW Formats Despite…
	 A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset - Ken Shirriff 	 A love letter to the CSV format - Hacker News 	 A love letter to the CSV format - medialab/xan (GitHub) 	 Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data - Ars Technica 	 Building a Personal Archive With Hoarder - James Ravenscroft 	 Computer Archeology 	 Confessions of an…
	 1972 UNIX V2 'Beta' Resurrected - Yufeng Gao 	 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome - TechRadar 	 Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov - 404media 	 Fearsome File Formats (YouTube) - Ange Albertini 	 How (not) to sign a JSON object - Latacora 	 How…
	 Branchless UTF-8 Encoding - Charles Eckman 	 Century-Scale Storage - Harvard Library Innovation Lab 	 Commodore Amiga 1000: the first perfect computer - Celso Martinho 	 Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs - Goto 10 Retro 	 Computer History Links - Rob Landley 	 EFGAMP: The official website of the European Federation of Game Archives, Museum and Preservation…
	 A data table thousands of years old - Robert Mesibov 	 Adobe Photoshop 7 Color File Format (.ACO files) - Larry Tesler 	 Adobe Photoshop File Formats Specification - Adobe 	 Borewit/music-metadata: Stream and file based music metadata parser for node 	 DS4SD/docling: Get your documents ready for gen AI 	 DVST Graphic Terminals - Vintagetek 	 Digital Preservation Is…
	 Apple Macintosh before System 7 	 Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever - Hacker News 	 Charset="WTF-8" - Hacker News 	 CloudEvents specification 	 Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders - Tinfoil.com 	 Essential Guide to 3D File Formats - 3D Cloud 	 Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city - Johns Hopkins Hub…
	 A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase - The Old New Thing 	 Booting Sun SPARC Servers - Sidneys1.com 	 Character Amnesia in China 	 DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support 	 Data Lifeboat - Flickr Foundation 	 Dookie Demastered 	 Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably -…
	 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…
	 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 -…
	 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…
	 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…
	 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…
	 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…
	 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 -…
	 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…
	 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…
	 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…
	 A virtual museum of Tektronix products, technology, and people - vintagetek.org 	 Archive Your Old Projects - Hacker News 	 Bitmovin's Guide to Adopting AV1 Encoding 	 Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile (YouTube) 	 DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs – cabel.com 	 DAVES OLD COMPUTERS 	 Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines…
	 A Visit to the Physical Internet Archive - The New Stack 	 A brief history of counting machines - lcamtuf's thing 	 Base64 Encoding, Explained - Akshay's blog 	 EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR – Terence Eden 	 Internet Artifacts 	 JSON is incredibly slow: Here’s What’s Faster! - Vaishnav Manoj 	 Nanofiche - Arch Mission Foundation 	 Until…
	 An INI critique of TOML · madmurphy/libconfini Wiki 	 Making IIIF Official at the Internet Archive - Internet Archive Blogs 	 The Jim Austin Computer Collection 	 The National Museum of Computing 	 Things Every Hacker Once Knew - Eric S Raymond 	 WILL SDK for ink - Wacom 	 Who Really Invented the Alphabet? - American Society of Overseas Research 	 Data…
	 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity - Blocks and Files 	 Adobe and Microsoft Break Some Old Files By Removing PostScript Font Support - Slashdot 	 HCL syntax specification - hashicorp/hcl 	 Introducing the 100-Year Plan: Secure Your Online Legacy for a Century - WordPress 	 Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux - LinuxJedi 	 PreTeXt 	 Very…
	 Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 - All Things Distributed 	 FlashMuseum - Flash Museum 	 🫴🦋 Is this an emoji? - spiffytech
	 Base 32 - Crockford 	 Control, Escape, and Meta Tricks - Susam Pal 	 FFmpeg Adds Support For Animated JPEG-XL - Phoronix 	 Fq: Jq for Binary Formats - Hacker News 	 How to Create a UTF-16 Surrogate Pair by Hand, with Python - OilShell Blog 	 Introducing UTF-21, a toy character encoding 	 L.A. Public Library now has a DIY lab for digitizing old media like VHS tapes and…
	 Lisa: Steve Jobs’ sabotage and Apple’s secret burial - The Verge 	 Retro Computer Museum (UK) 	 The OnStream Data Recovery Project - Github: Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery
	 A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut - Scientific American 	 Disney's Animal Kingdom unearths 1998 time capsule, finds floppy disks, VHS tapes - Boing Boing 	 Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF - Krzysztof Kowalczyk 	 Lost Movies - History Today 	 Magick Vector Graphics - ImageMagick 	 Why xHE-AAC is being…
	 Dalvik executable format  -  Android Open Source Project 	 dov/paps: A text to postscript converter through pango - Github 	 PDF/A-3, PDF for Long-term Preservation, Use of ISO 32000-1, With Embedded Files - Library of Congress 	 Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - Wikipedia 	 TinyVG 	 Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die - WIRED 	 typst/typst: A new…
	 Archiving in the Time of Streaming - Jason Scott 	 Rejected Emoji Proposals - Charlotte Buff 	 The dangers behind image resizing - Hacker News
	 Doc Converter - Convert PDF files to Word documents (docx) 	 FFhistory - Kostya's Boring Codec World 	 Fake Parallel Printer: A Parallel Port Traffic Capturing Tool - Tom Verbeure 	 Hello, PNG! - David Buchanan (Retr0id) 	 New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists - Boing Boing 	 Pandoc - Release 3 	 QOI — The Quite OK Image…
	 About the Retro-Printer Module | RetroPrinter.com 	 Brute Force Colors! - Arnaud Carré 	 How I still use Flash in 2022 - Foon by Robin Allen 	 How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games - TechRadar 	 PostScript: A Digital Printing Press - Computer History Museum 	 QOI is now my favorite asset format - Chris Wellons 	 QOIR: a Fast, Simple, Lossless…
	 1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair & Restoration 	 A guided tour through ID3 esoterica with Lars Wikman - The Changelog 	 Adobe files have Pantone colors removed and replaced with black - Hacker News 	 Can DNA Help Us Store Data for 1,000 Years? - Slashdot 	 Digital Amnesia (2014) - IMDb 	 Digital Amnesia (video) - YouTube 	 Digital Preservation…
	 Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books - Internet Archive 	 Formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown - The GitHub Blog 	 libgrapheme - suckless.org 	 The Case for JPEG XL - Cloudinary 	 The case for JPEG XL - Hacker News 	 The decades long quagmire of encapsulated HTML - Russell Beattie 	 The Rosetta Stone and what it actually says (video) - Ilona Regulski,…
	 Announcing ICU4X 1.0 - Unicode.org 	 Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 15.0 - Unicode.org 	 Building a docset for dash - Hynek Schlawack 	 Dominoes in Unicode - John D. Cook 	 FLAC Format overview - Xiph 	 Google’s Project Caviar to compete with Dolby Atmos, Vision - Protocol 	 Jean-François Champollion Deciphers the Rosetta Stone - JSTOR…
	 Flat Data - GitHub Next 	 I Made an Internet Time Machine - YouTube 	 Life on the Internet - Waxy.org 	 Losslessly optimising images - Ruben Schade 	 Microformats Wiki 	 Microsoft is Open-Sourcing Its Emoji - Slashdot 	 The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America - The Changelog 	 The messages that survived civilisation's collapse - BBC 	 Types Of Barcodes -…
	 3d: Dependent Data Descriptions for Verified Validation - EverParse Manual 	 A Library of Books No One Can Read For 100 Years - Slashdot 	 Apple II Documentation Project 	 Archives of Tomorrow: Video Formats - Ashley Blewer 	 (Computer) Museums In Switzerland 	 DICOM File Format Basics - Vladsiv 	 GitHub - maehr/awesome-digital-history: Find primary sources online and…