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Last updated 2026-11-04 17:17Z

Links for October 2026

• Askdown: forms, written like Markdown
• Blocking the Internet Archive Will Not Stop AI - The Atlantic
• Introducing the Document Parsing Protocol - LlamaIndex
• Read Rare: Rare internal memos and forgotten books
• Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have - Dead Parrot BBS
• shdwfruit/convkit: One command for file conversion: video, audio, images and docs. Wraps ffmpeg, ImageMagick, LibreOffice and pandoc, and runs offline - GitHub

Links for September 2026

• Agent memory as a file format - Cal Peterson
• Emulating a QIC-117 tape drive - Dmitry Brant
• From a Cronos Dump to CSV: Recovering a Legacy Database Format - Glazer Blog
• Iomega Clik: Little Disk, Huge Failure - Youtube
• Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years - Tom's Hardware
• Pirate Face - Turn AI into torrents that live forever
• Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight - Gwern.net
• Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex - WerWolv
• Sony MiniDisc: The (Not) Forgotten Audio Format That (Never) Failed - Youtube
• The Computer Museum of America reclamation project
• The case against JPEG XL - Gianni Rosato
• The case against JPEG XL - Hacker News
• What's in a PowerPoint file? - editide
• YARA - The pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers
• glTF: Runtime 3D Asset Delivery - Khronos.org
• stachon/hc2html: Convert HyperCard 2.x stacks into self-contained HTML pages with a HyperTalk subset runtime - GitHub

Links for August 2026

• Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo - Unique at Penn
• Cores memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer - Ken Shirriff
• Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse - The Walrus
• How an emoji goes from pitch to product - The Verge
• Pandoc: twenty-years-of-pandoc
• Recovering corrupt ZIP files - Ashley Gullen
• shshemi/tabiew: A lightweight TUI application to view and query tabular data files - github.com

Links for July 2026

• 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 for lock-in - TDF Community Blog
• Pandoc Lua Filters
• Tiny Emulators
• Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method - Slashdot
• Video Game History Foundation releases major new E3 archive collections - GamesIndustry.biz
• Why Sony Can’t Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models - Obsolete Sony
• floodtide/dom-docx: Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) - github.com

Links for June 2026

• 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 1948 - Ken Sherrif
• The S in interoperability - Frederik Braun
• The Universe of Discourse : Deciphering basmala
• The digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone - The Guardian
• office-open-xml-viewer - github.com/yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer

Links for April 2026

• 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: Markdown with superpowers
• Remembering Zip Drives: the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s - Slashdot
• Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer - Nathan Farlow
• The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril - WIRED
• World's Smallest QR Code Could Store Data for Centuries - Slashdot

Links for May 2026

• 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 Preserve Floppy Disks - IEEE Spectrum

Links for March 2026

• 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 & Results - Gough Lui
• I built a pint-sized Macintosh - Jeff Geerling
• Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/DOS - Christopher Drum
• Reverse Charset Table of Latin Characters
• The Best Advice on Preserving, Storing, and Digitizing Family Memories | Reviews by Wirecutter
• The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks - Popular Science
• research/svg-to-png-comparison at main · simonw/research

Links for February 2026

• 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 - Alex Chan
• M Disc for archival durability: Tests and review - Mol Smith
• Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass - Ars Technica
• Museum of Plugs and Sockets
• News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns - Nieman Journalism Lab
• PC Floppy Copy Protection: Electronic Arts Interlock
• PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok
• PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok
• Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80 - Penn Today
• SingleFile: Effortlessly Save and Preserve Web Pages
• What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? - Lars Ingebrigtsen
• Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - Ars Technica
• confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters - Paul Wood
• lqs/retrotick: Run classic Windows & DOS executables in the browser - github

New Search UIs for Emoji and Unicode

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.

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