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Arguably, video games have become the most important entertainment medium. 2022 US video game revenue topped $85B , compared with global m...

Two days before Christmas Ilya Kreymer posted Announcing the New OldWeb.today . The old oldweb.today was released five years ago, and Ilya ...

Jeff Rothenberg's seminal 1995 Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents focused on the threat of the format in which the documents w...

Unless you're a member of Usenix (why aren't you?) you'll have to wait a year to read two of three interesting preservation-rel...

Source David Gerard posts Wine on Windows 10. It works. Windows 10 introduced Windows Subsystem for Linux — and the convenience of Ubu...

I've written before about the valuable work of the Software Preservation Network (SPN). Now they have released their EaaSI Sandbox , in...

Oya Rieger of Ithaka S+R has published a report entitled The State of Digital Preservation in 2018: A Snapshot of Challenges and Gaps . In J...

Three years ago in Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies I wrote about Controlled Digital Lending (CDL): One idea that ...

There was lots of great stuff at the Internet Archive's Annual Bash . But for those of us who can remember the days before PCs played ...

In my report Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies I discussed the legal issues around emulating obsolete software, the b...

Jason Fagone at the San Francisco Chronicle has a fascinating story of heroic, successful (and timely) emulation in The Silicon Valley ques...

Science Friday 's Lauren Young has a three-part series on digital preservation: Ghosts In The Reels is about magnetic tape. The Libr...

The Digital Preservation Coalition's International Digital Preservation Day was marked by a wide-ranging collection of blog posts . Bel...

Jonathan Farbowitz's NYU MA thesis More Than Digital Dirt: Preserving Malware in Archives, Museums, and Libraries is well worth a more ...

Kyoto Railway Museum Much as I love Kyoto, now that I'm retired with daily grandparent duties (and no-one to subsidize my travel) ...

At last December's WinHEC conference , Qualcomm and Microsoft made an announcement to which I should have paid more attention: Qualcom...

The Internet Archive's massive collection of software now includes an in-browser emulation in the Emularity framework of the original Ma...

This post is an edited extract from my talk at last year's IIPC meeting . This part was the message I was trying to get across, but I bu...

Apart from a short paper describing a heroic effort of Web archaeology, recreating Amsterdam's De Digitale Stadt , the whole second morn...

I was one of five members of a panel on Software Preservation at iPRES 2016 , moderated by Maureen Pennock. We each had three minutes to ans...