Digital dark age
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digital-dark-age-166-2002551
title:
Digital dark age
text:
The digital dark age is a lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or inaccessible as technologies evolve and data decays. Future generations may find it difficult or impossible to retrieve electronic documents and multimedia, because they have been recorded in an obsolete and obscure file format, or on an obsolete physical medium; for example, floppy disks. The name derives from the term Da
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Degradation and loss of digitally-stored information
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age
date created:
2006-11-29T22:29:00Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:20:11Z
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13
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