Marion Stokes probably recorded a VHS tape of the news. Her estate left tens of thousands of tapes of TV news from 1970 to 2012. It's probably not lost, but it will take a while to digitize it all.
> "This is really about the problem of what I call the boneyard of the internet. Everything that's not a piece of text or a flat picture is basically destined to rot and die when new methods of delivering the content replace it," Pacheco told CNN Business. "I just feel like the internet is rotting at an even faster pace, ironically, because of innovation. It shouldn't."
I'd hardly call it "innovation". A single SWF file from 20 years ago will run on a Flash player with all assets stored inside a single file. Try archiving a modern JS-based interactive story (the NYT publishes loads) that requires 10 scripts, React, and CDN-served fonts and images to work.
Huh? Is this real? I used to write ActionScript, and Flash became obsolete, but it's not ancient alien technology.
Did they lose the files? Then it's not about Flash. This has a strong B.S. smell, but I guess they're trying to fool non-tech people. We can emulate NES and Atari games, Flash is no problem.
And what a coincidence huh? Welp, guess we lost this incredibly important time in history... talk about feeding conspiracy theories, they're going to be all over this.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 22.9 ms ] threadI'd hardly call it "innovation". A single SWF file from 20 years ago will run on a Flash player with all assets stored inside a single file. Try archiving a modern JS-based interactive story (the NYT publishes loads) that requires 10 scripts, React, and CDN-served fonts and images to work.
Did they lose the files? Then it's not about Flash. This has a strong B.S. smell, but I guess they're trying to fool non-tech people. We can emulate NES and Atari games, Flash is no problem.
And what a coincidence huh? Welp, guess we lost this incredibly important time in history... talk about feeding conspiracy theories, they're going to be all over this.