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Last updated 2025-11-10 23:20Z

**Links for October 2025**

- 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
- Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ
- F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future - Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
- File Format Gallery for Kaitai Struct
- Floppy Disk / Diskettes - retrocmp.de
- Floppy Drive Tech Info - Herb Johnson
- MAML: a new configuration language similar to JSON, YAML, and TOML
- Markdoc: A powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework
- Old Computer Challenge: Modern web for the ZX Spectrum - Tomás Gutiérrez
- OpenZL: a novel compression framework - Facebook
- Python's splitlines does a lot more than just newlines - William Woodruff
- Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse’s Z3 Computer - Raúl Rojas
- Saving the floppy disk - Cambridge University Library
- The QNX Operating System - Bradford Morgan White
- Why I gave the world wide web away for free - The Guardian

**Links for September 2025**

- 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 - Free Software Foundation
- Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement - Ars Technica
- Mediabunny: A JavaScript library for reading, writing, and converting video and audio files in the browser
- Oldest recorded transaction - Avinash Sajjanshetty
- People who hunt old TVs - BBC
- The 16 year odyssey to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive - Read Only Memo
- Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games - Mason Remaley
- The day Return became Enter – Marcin Wichary
- Tomorrow’s Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 Has Arrived - Jennifer Daniel
- UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design - Vishnu Haridas

**Links for August 2025**

- 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 - TenFourFox
- Multics
- Picking An Old Operating System - Hackaday
- So you want to parse a PDF? - Eliot Jones
- The two versions of Parquet - Jerónimo
- Why German Strings are Everywhere - CedarDB
- Why I prefer human-readable file formats - Adële
- microsoft/poml: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language
- RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode - Tim Bray
- permacomputing

**Links for July 2025**

- 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 - Internet Archive Blogs
- Introduction to Computer Music - Jeffrey Hass
- It's a DE9, Not a DB9. (But We Know What You Mean) - SparkFun
- Lossless Float Image Compression · Aras' website
- Mark Notation: A unified notation for object and markup data
- More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work - Allison Parrish
- The Unicode Blog: 🥳 Say Hello to the New Emoji Coming in Unicode 17.0 This Fall! ✨
- Why English doesn’t use accents - by Colin Gorrie

**Links for June 2025**

- 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
- Notes on the history of the map tile - Placing Technologies
- PNG is back! - Chris Blume
- The ARChive of Contemporary Music
- The Hewlett Packard Archive
- The Museum of Broadcast Technology
- Where can I find the initial version of the /etc/magic file used by the file(1) command? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
- Zstandard Seekable Format - github
- macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format - The Eclectic Light Company

**Links for May 2025**

- 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 PC-98 computer - Strange Comforts
- Western Digital Invests in Ceramic Storage Firm That Claims 5,000-Year Data Retention - Slashdot
- What makes a Unicode code point safe? - Things Of Interest

**Links for April 2025**

- 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 Open Standard Alternative - Slashdot
- Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure - IEEE Spectrum
- DotWhat? - The leading File Extension resource
- File Types Indexable by Google - Google Search Central
- GlyphDrawing.Club -blog
- How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases - Mathias Bynens
- Hypercosm and Web 3D - Alan De Smet
- JSLinux: Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser - Fabrice Bellard
- KOReader: An ebook reader supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and more on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
- Libextractor: a library to extract file metadata - Free Software Foundation
- MAKING SOFTWARE
- Man pages are great, man readers are the problem - Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
- Music Notation: Preferred Preservation Formats for Digital Scores - Library of Congress
- Sensible - Document Processing for Developers
- Steve's Computer Collection
- The Humdrum Toolkit for Computational Music Analysis - Humdrum
- The Jefferson Computer Museum
- The Main 3D Printing File Formats - All3DP
- Tiny Emulators
- Understanding 3D Printer File Formats (STL, OBJ, 3MF, and more) - Wevolver
- Unicode equivalence - Wikipedia
- Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues - Tom's Hardware
- VERT.sh - on-device file conversion
- We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing - The Verge
- What the Hell Is a Target Triple? - Miguel Young de la Sota
- invisal/sqlite-internal: Playaround with SQLite internals - Github
- seekbytes/IPA: GUI analyzer for deep-diving into PDF files - Github
- ~sircmpwn/scdoc - Small man page generator - sourcehut git

**Links for March 2025**

- 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 Information Hoarder - Charlie Warzel
- Convert Linux to Windows - Philip Bohun
- Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C - Chris Wellons
- Technical history of Acorn - Robert McMordie
- The Sarnoff Collection - The College of New Jersey
- The Virtual Keypunch: Make Your Personal Punch Card
- The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives - Doug Brown
- Why CDs Failed to Stand the Test of Time - How-To Geek
- Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust - Martijn Faassen

**Links for February 2025**

- 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 we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes -The Conversation
- If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown - Piotr Migdal
- Inside imessage-exporter: Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format - Christopher Sardegna
- Magika: a tool to detect common file content types, using deep learning.
- Reverse Engineering PowerPoint's XML to Build a Slide Generator - Listen Labs
- Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji - Paul Butler
- Sparrow: A Modern C++ Implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar format - Johan Mabille
- The VGHF Library opens in early access - Video Game History Foundation
- mdq: like jq but for Markdown - Yuval Shavit

**Links for January 2025**

- 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 Projects
- FFmpeg By Example
- Files, Formats, and Derivatives - Internet Archive Help Center
- Flip phones and floppy discs on display at Tokyo's "extinct media" museum - Youtube
- How a UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet - University of California
- International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
- JPEG XL: What It Is And Why You Should Care - PetaPixel
- Learn MetaPost
- Pesto, the PST reader
- Preserves: an Expressive Data Language
- Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format - DuckDB
- Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM - Nicole Branagan
- Samsung and Google's New Spatial Audio Format Will Take On Dolby Atmos - Slashdot
- Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms - Moncef Abboud
- The Most Elegant Configuration Language - Dmitrii Kovanikov
- The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories - Post Game Content
- The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month - PC Gamer
- Trigraphs - Microsoft Learn
- WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI! - Orange Tsai
- ZX Spectrum SCR to PNG Converter

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